Download or read book Paris was Yesterday, 1925-1939 written by Janet Flanner and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925 Janet Flanner began writing a fortnightly 'letter from Paris' for the nascent New Yorker. This is a collection of those letters written in the 1920s and 1930s, one of the most fascinating periods in the city's history.