The other Americans in Paris: businessmen, countesses, wayward youth, 1880 - 1941

Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Not So Lost Generation: The "American Colony" -- 2. Uses of Citizenship: Tales from the Consulate, or How Mrs. Baker Got Her Hat Back -- 3. For Love or Money: Marriage and Divorce in the French Capital -- 4. Americans at Work: Of Grocers, Fashion Writers, Dentists, and Lawyers -- 5. Doing Business in France: The Formal and the Informal -- 6. Down and Out in Paris: The Tailed, the Arrested, and the Poor -- 7. French Connections, Reciprocal Visions: Love, Hate, Awe, Disdain -- 8. Heading Home: War, Again -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

There is an untold tale of Americans in Paris, a history of expatriation and immigration that parallels the story of the 'Lost Generation' expatriates who came to France for creative inspiration. This book argues that the 'other Americans in Paris' - American heiresses who married cash-poor French noblemen, wayward souls who got into trouble there but especially American businessmen living on the Right Bank of the Seine - are part of an important story of the early half of the 'American Century'

While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers' representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who had