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p. 93 ‘De Gaulle is afraid….’, Dimitrov and Ponomarev, 30 November 1944, RGASPI 17/128/14

p. 95 ‘a provoking attitude…’, Louis Closon, Commissaire de la République, p. 69

p. 95 ‘At the time of the Liberation…’, quoted M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France, p. 420

p. 95 ‘Toulouse was the souk…’, Jacques Baumel, conversation, 6 August 1992

p. 97 ‘belle brochette de colonels’, quoted Henri Amouroux, Les Règlements de comptes, vol. ix, p. 165

p. 100 ‘more nicknames…’, René Serre, Croisade à coups de poings, p. 142

p. 100 ‘This adventure was unexpected…’, Georges Bidault, D’une Résistance à l’autre, p. 70

p. 101 ‘peuplé de Vichy’, Hervé Alphand, L’Étonnement d’être, p. 181

p. 101 ‘He could have helped me…’, 13 February 1947, DCD

p. 102 ‘There has been snow…’, NARA 851.00/1-2045

p. 102 la Collecte, report of 2 February 1945 by Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nationale, AN F/1 a/3249

p. 102 ‘the child St Augustine…’, François Mauriac, Journal, vol. iv, p. 8

p. 103 ‘Milk for our little ones!’, AN F/1 a/3250

p. 103 ‘the Siege of Paris’, AN F/1 a/3249

p. 103 ‘suitcase-carriers’, Yves Farge, Le Pain de la corruption, p. 10

p. 103 ‘In the circumstances…’, 26 March 1945, AN F/1 a/3250

p. 104 ‘We are most unhappy…’, AN F/1 a/3208

p. 104 ‘The insufficient purge…’, October 1945, report on activity of CGT, RGASPI 17/128/16

p. 104 ‘un problème délicat’, Ministre des Travaux Publics, 17 October 1944, AN F/1 a/3208

p. 104 ‘The directors of the Renault factories…’, L’Humanité, 22 August 1944, quoted Pierre Assouline, L’Épuration des intellectuels, p. 22

p. 105 ‘fulfilled its duty to the nation…’, quoted Gaston Palewski, Mémoires d’action, p. 228

p. 106 ‘to put Humpty Dumpty…’, Grover Smith (ed.), Letters of Aldous Huxley, p. 516

10. CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE

p. 107 ‘He seemed curiously young…’, 14 September 1944, DCD

p. 108 ‘At last!’, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Diaries, p. 675

p. 109 ‘extremely frigid and dreary…’, 24 October 1944, DCD

p. 110 ‘left in disgust…’, 14 September 1944, DD

p. 112 ‘looking like an old concierge’, 21 March 1947, DCD

p. 112 ‘the vodka struggle’, 20 November 1945, LDCP-CR

p. 113 ‘The traffic…’, 7 November 1944, DCD

p. 113 ‘uneasy to conduct…’, Georges Bidault, D’une Résistance à l’autre, p. 72

p. 113 ‘In Bido Veritas’, 24 February 1945, DD

p. 114 ‘Claudel, Alexis Léger…’, Jacques Dumaine, Quai d’Orsay, 1945–51, pp. 2–3

p. 114 ‘was most indignant…’, 28 November 1944, DCD

p. 115 ‘a curious pair…’, Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, vol. ii, p. 217

p. 115 ‘in the happiest of humours’, 11 November 1944, DCD

p. 115 ‘for about two hours…’, 11 November 1944, DCD

p. 116 ‘Although his outward…’, RGASPI 17/128/14

p. 117 ‘Communist dressed up as a field marshal…’, Charles de Gaulle, Mémoires de guerre, vol. iii, p. 61

p. 117 ‘One never ceases to be Polish…’, Hervé Alphand, L’Étonnement d’être, p. 180

p. 118 ‘France must pay…’, ‘Foreign Relations of the United States of America, The Conferences at Cairo and Teheran’, pp. 484–5, quoted Jean Elleinstein, Goliath contre Goliath, p. 97

p. 118 ‘Don’t take my…’, de Gaulle, Mémoires de guerre, vol. iii, p. 56

p. 120 ‘How much is a pint?’, Lady Rothschild (Tess Mayor), conversation, 1 December 1992

p. 120 ‘Paris is lugubrious…’, Alphand, L’Étonnement d’être, p. 182

p. 121 ‘It suggested that de Gaulle…’, 4 January 1945, DCD

p. 121 ‘I felt my brain slowing down…’, Philippe Boegner (ed.), Carnets du Pasteur Boegner, p. 324

p. 121 ‘chased out the Germans…’, Ponomarev, RGASPI 17/128/748

p. 122 ‘The French authorities…’, NARA 751.00/5-1245

11. LIBERATORS AND LIBERATED

p. 124 ‘condemned to trade…’, Yves Farge, Le Pain de la corruption, p. 12

p. 124 ‘Anyone found in possession…’, NARA 851.04413/1-545

p. 125 ‘seize three…’, 27 July 1945, AN F/1 a/3249

p. 125 ‘I am told…’, Caffery, NARA 851.5017/1-2947

p. 125 ‘Lise’s main sport…’, Simone de Beauvoir, La Force des choses, p. 26

p. 125 ‘The hats in Paris…’, Corporal Bob Baldrige, letter, 7 March 1945

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