Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay, and the Vichy Dilemma

Author Barbara Will, Dartmouth College, in conversation with Ruth Franklin, senior editor, The New Republic In 1941, Gertrude Stein, at the urging of Bernard Fay, then director of the Bibliotheque Nationale, began translating into English the speeches of Marshal Philippe Petain, head of the collaborationist Vichy regime. In her new book, Will examines what led the avant-garde icon to embark on such a project.