Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Discoveries -- 1. Women of the Left Bank -- 2. Secret Passages: The Faubourg St. Germain -- 3. Simultaneous Existences: Four Lives in St. Germain -- 4. From the Left Bank to the Upper East Side: Janet Flanner's Letter from Paris -- Part II. Settlements -- 5. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: Rue de Fleurus -- 6. Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier: Rue de I'Odéon -- 7. Djuna Barnes: Rue St.-Romain -- 8. Natalie Barney: Rue Jacob -- Part III. Crossroads -- 9. H. D. and Bryher: En passant -- 10. At the Sign of the Printing Press: The Role of Small Presses and Little Magazines -- 11. Paris Transfer: The 1930s -- 12. The City They Left -- Notes -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.