The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.

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Ed : Brooklyn College and City University of New York, Revised edition, Includesnew texts, introduction, biography, overview.

Dregni has penned the first major critical biography of Gypsy legend and guitar icon Django Reinhardt.

A ground-breaking study of the cinematic representation of Paris in the films of émigré filmmakers who made it their first refuge from Hitler's Germany.

The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers.