Transatlantic conversation : 'Americanization', Modernization and Cultural Transfers

Abstract : Returning to France, French exiles in the United States during the Second World War became the voluntary and sometimes involuntary peddlers of an America that they had known only unvenly. Were they, as their critics would sometimes have it, an American Trojan Horse in post-war France? To what degree can we bring the experience of the return from exile to bear on the process of Americanization underway in the Europe of the Marshall Plan? (...).