Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Janet Flanner
Born: March 13, 1892
Died: November 7, 1978 (aged 86)
Bio: Janet Flanner was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt".
Known for:
- Paris was yesterday (1972)
- Paris Journal, 1944-1965 (1965)
- Janet Flanner's world
- Darlinghissima
- Men and monuments (1957)