Follows the eminent European newspaper correspondent's near-prophetic perceptions of a European order that would enable a transcendental world of beauty and promise. Reprint. The wisdom of a lost generation distilled in a bottle of Calvados. Introduction 11(14) Part I First Impressions How to Celebrate a Revolution 25(2) America over Paris 27(8) Part II In the French Midi Lyons 35(3) The Cinema in the Arena 38(3) Nothing Going On---In Vienne 41(4) Tournon 45(4) Bullfight on Sunday 49(5) Marseilles 54(4) The Boatman 58(3) Nice 61(3) A Cinema in the Harbor 64(5) Part III The White Cities The White Cities 69(8) Lyons 77(8) Vienne 85(6) Tournon 91(6) Avignon 97(13) Les Baux 110(6) Nimes and Arles 116(8) Tarascon and Beaucaire 124(6) Marseilles Revisited 130(7) The People 137(8) Part IV The Wandering Jews Paris 145(10) Part V Parisian Paradise Count d'Orgel and The Devil in the Flesh 155(2) Letter from Paris 157(2) Report from a Parisian Paradise 159(4) Saint-Quentin, Peronne, Maisonnette 163(6) The Troubadour 169(3) La Renaissance Latine 172(3) Twenty Minutes from Before the War 175(4) Books About Soldiers 179(4) A Day or Two in Deauville 183(6) Emile Zola---Author Away from His Desk 189(3) The Living Buddha 192(3) The Panopticum on Sunday 195(5) The Child in Paris 200(2) Honor to the Roofs of Paris! 202(4) The Frenchman on Wotan's Oak 206(8) French People 214(3) Children Are Exchanged 217(6) Part VI In the Bistro After Midnight God in Germany 223(3) Europe Is Possible Only Without the Third Reich 226(4) The Poet Paul Claudel 230(3) The Myth of the German Soul 233(5) Rest While Watching the Demolition 238(4) The Children of Exile 242(4) In the Bistro After Midnight 246(5) Old Cossacks 251(2) From the ``Black-and-Yellow Diary,'' March 12 and 13, 1939 253(3) Clemenceau 256(20) From an Author's Diary 276(5) Index 281