Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
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A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American
students have been lured by that vision--and been transformed by
their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three
stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three
extraordinary American women. All three women would go on to become
icons, key figures in American cultural, intellectual, and
political life, but when they embarked for France, they were young,
little-known, uncertain about their future, and drawn to the
culture, sophistication, and drama that only Paris could offer. Yet
their backgrounds and their dreams couldn't have been more
different. Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante, a
Catholic girl from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was
twenty-four, a precocious Jewish intellectual from a North
Hollywood family of modest means, and Paris was a refuge from
motherhood, a failing marriage, and graduate work in philosophy at
Oxford. Angela Davis, a French major at Brandeis from a prominent
African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, found herself the
only black student in her year abroad program--in a summer when all
the news from Birmingham was of unprecedented racial violence.
Kaplan takes readers into the lives, hopes, and ambitions of these
young women, tracing their paths to Paris and tracking the
discoveries, intellectual adventures, friendships, and loves that
they found there. For all three women, France was far from a
passing fancy; rather, Kaplan shows, the year abroad continued to
influence them, a significant part of their intellectual and
cultural makeup, for the rest of their lives. Jackie Kennedy
carried her love of France to the White House and to her later
career as a book editor, bringing her cultural and linguistic
fluency to everything from art and diplomacy to fashion and
historic restoration--to the extent that many, including Jackie
herself, worried that she might seem too French. Sontag found in
France a model for the life of the mind that she was determined to
lead; the intellectual world she observed from afar during that
first year in Paris inspired her most important work and remained a
key influence--to be grappled with, explored, and transcended--the
rest of her life. Davis, meanwhile, found that her Parisian vantage
strengthened her sense of political exile from racism at home and
brought a sense of solidarity with Algerian independence. For her,
Paris was a city of political commitment, activism, and militancy,
qualities that would deeply inform her own revolutionary agenda and
soon make her a hero to the French writers she had once studied.
Kaplan, whose own junior year abroad played a prominent role in her
classic memoir, French Lessons, spins these three quite different
stories into one evocative biography, brimming with the ferment and
yearnings of youth and shot through with the knowledge of how a
single year--and a magical city--can change a whole life. No one
who has ever dreamed of Paris should miss it.
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