"Wars I Have Seen" 1945 STEIN, Gertrude

"Wars I Have Seen" 1945 STEIN, GertrudeSTEIN, Gertrude [191] pp. B. T. Batsford 1945 VG VG Jacket design by Cecil Beaton In "Wars I Have Seen" (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. She did the funds from America on which she and Alice B. Toklas depended no

STEIN, Gertrude

[191] pp.

B.T. Batsford

1945

VG/ VG

Jacket design by Cecil Beaton

In "Wars I Have Seen" (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. She did - the funds from America on which she and Alice B. Toklas depended no longer arrived - and he offered her a matching monthly stipend. Stein and Toklas lived on Genin's kindness for six months, after which Stein sold a Cézanne ("quite quietly to some one who came to see me") and no longer needed money. "And so I thanked Paul Genin and paid him back and he said if you ever need me just tell me, and that was that."

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