Every Frenchman Has One [Hardcover]

Back in print for the first time in decades—and featuring a new interview with the author, in celebration of her centennial birthday—the delectable escapades of Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, who fell in love with a Frenchman—and then became a Parisian
 
In 1953, Olivia de Havilland—already an Academy Award-winning actress for her roles inTo Each His OwnandThe Heiress—became the heroine of her own real-life love affair. She married a Frenchman, moved to Paris, and planted her standard on the Left Bank of the River Seine. It has been fluttering on both Left and Right Banks with considerable joy and gaiety from that moment on.

Still, her transition from Hollywood celebrity toparisiennewas anything but easy. And inEvery Frenchman Has One,her skirmishes with French customs, French maids, French salesladies, French holidays, French law, French doctors, and above all, the French language, are here set forth in a delightful and amusing memoir of her early years in the “City of Light.”

Paraphrasing Caesar, Ms. de Havilland says, “I came. I saw. I was conquered.”New York TimesBestseller

“Delightfully witty... [de Havilland's] tone might be playful, but her talent was, and is, serious.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Charming, cheeky fun...[with] plenty of nostalgic pleasure.”
—Vogue.com

“Sensational.”
—Parade.com (13 Summer Reads That Are Must-Haves for the Beach)

“I found myself supremely enchanted by Every Frenchman Has One....[L]ittle did I imagine that this tome inspired by her 1953 move to Paris following her marriage...would reveal such a marvelous reserve of mischievous wit and self-deprecating humor.... Like a delicious collectionlƒ$