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pilots, visits shot down ; appearance ; armistice and ; arrives in Paris ; ‘bunnies’ , ; childhood ; collaborators literary circle and , ; death ; Edward Gordon Craig, lobbies for release of ; family ; fight for liberation of Paris, observes ; finances ; First World War ; food shortages ; German army entering Paris, watches ; German soldiers in Paris, experience of ; health ; Hemingway and ; imprisonment ; Jewish friends ; Joyce and ; Knight of the Legion of Honour ; 1930s, life in ; outbreak of war and ; Paul Valéry, friendship with; post-war life ; reasons for staying in Paris ; release from prison camp ; Shakespeare and Company see Shakespeare and Company; US, visits 1936 ; writers, relationships with see also under individual writer name

Beaverbrook, Lord

Becat, Paul-Emile

Becat, Rinette

Bechet, Sidney

Beck, Colonel-General Ludwig

Bedaux, Blanche de Kressier Allen

Bedaux, Charles; Abadan refinery, attempts to save ; arrest and imprisonment ; ‘B’ unit ; burial ; businesses ; character ; Château de Candé and ; citizenship, American , ; death ; ‘equivalism’ ; family ; French Foreign Legion ; French intelligence services and ; French military defeat, depressed by ; Friedrich von Ledebur and; German peace camp and ; health ; house arrest ; Jewish friends, aides ; Joseph von Ledebur and ; Kenadsa coal mines and ; Laval and ; marriages see also Bedaux, Fern; mistresses ; Murphy and ; Nazis, relations with ; nervous breakdown ; New York, first arrives in ; North African pipeline ; Pétain and ; phony war and 4; politics, interest in ; release from prison ; reputation after death ; son, relationship with see also Bedaux, Charles Emile; Trans-Sahara Railway project ; treason, charged with ; US interest in activities ; US, return to ; wealth ; Windsor’s, relationship with ; Weygand, relays offer of premiership to ; youth

Bedaux, Charles Emile

Bedaux, Fern

Bedaux, Gaston

Bedell-Smith, General Walter

Beekman, Dean Frederick Warren

Benét, Stephen Vincent

Benjamin, Walter

Bennett, James Gordon

Benoist-Méchin, Jacques

Berg, Mary

Berge, General Wendell

Bergson, Henri

Bernard, Jacques

‘Bernhard List’

Bernheim, Françoise

Bernhuber, Colonel,

Besançon

Bibliothèque Nationale

Biddle, General Francis

Biddle, Jr, Anthony Drexel

Bidou, Henri

Billin, Maude Evelyn

Bishop, Ogden

Blanchard, Elsa

Blanchard, Simone

Blum, Léon

Bock, Clemence

Bois de Boulogne

Bonhoeffer, Pastor Dietrich

Bonnard, Abel

Bonnet, Georges

Bonsergent, Jacques

Boothe, Clare

Boucher, Victor

Bouffet, René

Boulanger, Nadia

Bouloumié, Louis

Bove, Dr Charles

Brasillach, Robert

Breton, André

Briggs, Arthur

Briggs, Carlotta Welles

Briggs, Frank

Briggs, Jim

Brinon, Comte Fernand de

Brinon, Lisette de

Britain: Battle of France, role in; declares war on Germany ; in North Africa and Middle East ; prisoners of war ; RAF see RAF; René de Chambrun, attitudes towards ; Saint-Nazaire, raid on ; US military aid to ; V-1 threat to ; Vichy and

British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

Brockere, Suzanne de

Brosse, Maurice de

Bruller, Jean

Bruno, Dr Alexander

Bullard, Eugene

Bullard, Jacqueline

Bullard, Lolita

Bullard, Marcelle

Bullard, William

Bullard’s Athletic Club

Bullitt, (neé Bryant), Louise

Bullitt, Anne

Bullitt, Orville

Bullitt, William; advises Americans to leave Paris ; Ambassador to Soviet Union ; character ; Château de Candé, rents part of ; death ; family ; First World War ; France’s senior politicians, closeness to ; French army, joins; Jacques Simon, aides the release of ; Jewish friends, attempts to aide ; leaves France ; leaves Paris ; mayor of Paris, unofficial ; Nazis, relationship with ; persuades Germans not to destroy Paris ; phony war and 4; refusal to leave Paris ; René de Chambrun and ; returns to liberated American Embassy in Paris ; Roosevelt, relationship with ; Thierry de Martel and ; Vichy government and

Burling, John L.

Burton, G. O.

Bussière, Amédéé

Butcher, Commander Harry C.

Cadman, Lord

Café de la Paix

Caillette, André

Cain, Julien

Cameron, Isabella see Waite, Isabella Cameron

Camp, Ruth