The People of Paris (1966)

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company (book, 1st), 1966.
8.5" x 6" x 1.25", 326 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket.

This is Joseph Barry's series of essays about Paris and the people living there in the early 1960s entitled The People of Paris, published by Doubleday & Company (Garden City, New York) in 1966.

This book has a section devoted to William S. Burroughs entitled “William Burroughs: Naked Notes”, pp. 149-153, which is an excellent portrait of Burroughs living at the Beat Hotel at 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris in the early 1960s. This chapter is introduced by a quote from Burroughs on Naked Lunch.

This copy was acquired from Between the Covers Rare Books (Gloucester City, New Jersey).

Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5).

Contents:

• Foreword
• "I: Paris Present"
• "Paris's New Puritanism" [includes mention of Burroughs, Maurice Girodias, etc.]
• "La France Is Feminine"
• "Bypaths of Pleasure"
• "The Group à la Française"
• "The Younger Set"
• "II: Some Parisians in Profile"
• "At Home in the House of Chanel"
• "Belmondo – The Man and the Myth"'
• "Anouilh – Playwright of the Western World"
• "Sartre and Beauvoir – From Dawn to Dusk"
• "Moments with Malraux"
• "III: Some Americans in Paris"
• "Tourists and Colonists"
• "Shakespeare, Whitman and Company"
• "Smith, Baldwin and Brothers"
• "Saroyan Between Trapezes"
• "Billy Graham Between Planes"
• "William Burroughs: Naked Notes" [full section on Burroughs]
• "A Tribute to Alice B. Toklas"
• "Mary McCarthy vs. Paris"
• "A Tale of Two Cities"
• "Prince Charming in Paris"
• "IV: Three Russians in Passing"
• "Khrushchev"
• "Vosnesensky"
• "Yevtushenko" 
• "V: The Public Education of a Paris Correspondent"
• "Gaullists to the Right"
• "Gaullists to the Left"
• "Gloom in General"
• "Camus in Particular"
• "Bidault – A Small Case of Corruption"
• "De Gaulle – A Touch of Grandeur"
• "France – A Phoenix Too Frequent"
• "The 121"
• "The Worms Turn"
• "And The Casbah Revolts"
• "Comic Relief"
• "And the Big Putsch"
• "La France Infernale"
• "Ironies in the Fire"
• "And Out of the Ashes"
• "La France Éternelle"
• "VI: To Hell with Politics"
• "Artists and Attics, Clowns and Connections"
• "A Salute to the Maladjusted, An Hommage to Montparnasse"
• "Paris Repossessed"
• "VII: Rambles and Brambles in the French Mind"
• "French Taste and the Guide Michelin"
• "La Relaxe and French Skepticism"
• "Starry-eyed in Gallia"
• "Last Words"
• "French Chauvinism"
• "VIII: The Lit'ry Life"
• "From the Ridiculous..." 
• "...To the Sublime"
• "IX: The Skeptic Goes to Chartres"