Sisley Huddleston (May 28 1883 – July 14 1952).was a British jourmalist and writer.
After editing a British forces newspaper in World War I, he was resident in Paris after the war until the 1930s. During World War II he was in Vichy France, taking French citizenship, and writing in sympathy with the Vichy regime. He interviewed Marshal Pétain.
He was imprisoned by the Allies as a Vichy collaborator. He wrote a number of works, critical in particular of the Allied handling of the Liberation of France, and of the diplomacy of the politicians.
Works
- Peace-making at Paris (1919)
- Poincaré, A Biographical Portrait (1924)
- Those Europeans: Studies Of Foreign Faces (1924)
- France and the French (1925)
- France: The France of Today (1927)
- In and About Paris (1927) Illustrated by Hanslip Fletcher
- Mr. Paname: A Paris Fantasia (1927)
- Normandy: Its Charm, Its Curiosities, Its Antiquities, Its History, Its Topography (1928)
- Bohemian Literary and Social Life in Paris: Salons, cafes, studios (1928)
- Articles de Paris: A book of essays (1928)
- Louis XIV in Love & in War (1929)
- Europe in Zigzags: Social, Artistic, Literary, and Political Affairs on the Continent (1929)
- A History of France (1929)
- Between the River and the Hills: Travels thru France (1930)
- What's Right with America (1930)
- Back To Montparnasse: Glimpses of Broadway in Bohemia (1931)
- The Captain's Table. A Transatlantic Log (1932)
- War Unless (1933)
- In my time: An observer's record of war and peace (1938)
- Cities and Men by Inman Barnard (1940) editor
- Free France and Britain. the Franco-British Companion (1941) edited by William G. Corp, contributor
- Le Livre de Saint-Pierre. Vie, Mort et Renaissance d'un Village de France (1942)
- Le mythe de la liberté - entretiens en temps de guerre (1943)
- Terreur 1944, témoignage d'un embastillé (1947)
- Avec le Maréchal (1948)
- Mediterranean Blue (19480
- Petain, patriot or traitor? (1951)
- Popular diplomacy and war (1954)
- France: the tragic years, 1939-1947; an eyewitness account of war, occupation, and liberation (1955)
- Elisabeth d'Angleterre, Le mystère d'une reine vierge (1960)
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