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Paris Embassy Diary 1921D1922 (Paperback)
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Paris Embassy Diary 1921D1922 (Paperback)
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The diary of Agnes Herrick presents a firsthand view of social and
cultural life in early twentieth-century Paris. At that time,
forty-year-old Agnes Blackwell Herrick is the hostess at the
American Embassy for her father-in-law, Ambassador Myron T.
Herrick, the much celebrated "Friend of France." She had privileged
access to events and some of the principal people involved in them.
What she saw was perhaps a last echo of the Belle Epoque and the
first tremor of renewed national rivalries that contained the seeds
of further struggle and war that lay ahead. It was a time of
strenuous post-World War I negotiations between the Allies and
Germany shared with a frenetic burst of artistic experimentation
and the birth of Modernism. Agnes' social calendar records the
relentless tempo of social and cultural life in the highest
diplomatic circles as illustrated by selected entries from her
diary. The book summarizes the diary and identifies the
extraordinary assembly of political, cultural, intellectual,
financial, and high society personalities who accepted the
Ambassador's invitations to dinner. The detail and immediacy of
Agnes' record add a fresh primary source for historians and a
firsthand glimpse of a compelling and still relevant world.
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