Summer, 1939: Anais in Paris

Anais travels to St. Tropez with Gonzalo and Helba in the summer of 1939 while Henry travels to Greece. She experiences the beach, the ocean, grilled meat over wood fires, heat, sun, pleasure. She wears shorts and bathing suits, she dances, she swims, she bicycles, she eats fruit, she sits around campfires at night, she watches sailboats. She returns to Paris in a train full of soldiers. Her Paris days are coming to an end.

Places where she and friends lived or worked: Louveciennes, Clichy (Henry), 18 Villa Seurat (Henry), 30 Quai de Passy, Montparnasse (Gonzalo), Denfert-Rochereau (Henry), houseboat called La Belle Aurore on the Quai de Pont Royal, houseboat called Nanankepichu, first studio on the Rue Schoelcher, small low-ceilinged room with two windows on a very old French garden on the Rue de Lille, Dordogne region (Henry), 7 Rue du General Henrion Berthier, Neuilly (Anais' birthplace where her father later moved), Rue Cassini, Montsouris (Henry), Vanves (Gonzalo).

Cafes and Cabarets where she ate, drank, talked, wrote: Cafe Select, Coupole, Maxim's, Cabaret aux Fleurs, Boule Blanche, the Lido, small theatre on the Rue de la Gaite, the Dome, Poisson d'Or, Melody's Bar, Madeleine, Cafe Zeyer, Deux Maggots, Cafe Flore, bar of the Martiniquaise (next to hotel), Brasserie Lipp, Rosalie's, Bal Negre, favorite restaurant La Petite Marmite, Cafe Terminus.

Streets where she wandered: along the Seine and the quays, from the Opera to the Parc de Montsouris, Rue des Saints-Peres, Rue Saint-Honore, through the Bois, Rue Godot-de-Mauroy, Champs-Elysees, Rue Jean-Dolent, Rue de Beaune, Rue Raynouard, le boulevard Suchet, Rue Boulainvillier, Rue des Marronniers, through the Ile Saint-Louis, Rue de Seine, Rue du Bac, Rue d'Odessa, Rue Vendome, Avenue des Ternes, Boulevard St. Germain, Rue des Artistes, Rue de la Tombe-d'Issoire, Bal Tabarin.

Other places she visited: the Louvre, Notre Dame, Bibliotheque Nationale, Sacre Coeur, Tour Eiffel, Tuileries gardens, Gare d'Orsay, Cite Universitaire, Palais de Justice, Prison de la Sante, Montmartre, Alesia, Sorbonne, Church of Saint-Germain, the Metro, Hotel Acropolis (160 boulevard St. Germain, room 55), Gare St. Lazare, Porte d'Orleans, Saint Raphael.