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INDEX abortion, 79, 187, 197–98, 243n61 Académie de Culture Physique, 52, 86. See also exercise; Sparta Club ADIL (Amis de l’Île du Levant), 95, 100–101, 113–15 ADIL (Association des Amis de l’Île du Levant ), 94–97, 106–13, 128, 136, 160–61 aesthetics of nudity, 15–16, 26–27, 36–38, 54–55; at the Île du Levant, 102, 112; at Manoir Jan, 66–67 Africans, 2, 32–33, 74–75, 82. See also empire Agde, 163–96, 198–99, 207–9 Aigremont, Château de, 156–58. See also Kienné de Mongeot; Sparta Club Air et Soleil, 127 alcohol, xiii, 8–9; at Cap d’Agde, 169, 187; at the Château de Garambouville, 65; and the Durvilles, 18–23, 36; at the Île du Levant, 44, 103, 105–6, 113; and the INF, 134, 197; and Kienné de Mongeot, 56, 76–77; at Klingberg, 60; and Lecocq, 130, 139; at Manoir Jan, 69 Algiers, interwar nudist group in, 62 Alsace, interwar nudist group in, 62 Amboise, 36 American Indians, 54 American Sunbathing Association, 133 Amis de Vivre d’Algers, 62 anarchism, 11, 78–79, 230n109 apoilistes, defined, 206 Apollo: as model for male bodies, 39, 140; as opposed to Hercules, 220n70 Aquitaine, 88, 146, 172, 181, 199–200 Arcachon, 147, 205 Ardèche, nudism in, 121, 153–54 Armand, Émile, 84, 113 Arna, 200 Article 222-32 of criminal code, 203–4, 256n28 Article 330 of criminal code, 31; at Cap d’Agde, 172; elimination of, 203–4; and the FFN, 143; on the Île du Levant, 46, 94–95, 100; and jurisprudence, 41–42, 85, 148; and the minimum, 148; at Montalivet , 148, 151–52; and the Toulon case, 63–64 Association des Maires des Stations Thermales , 111 Atlantic Wall, 150, 200 Australia, 2, 102 Baker, Josephine, 224n8 Bali, Île du Levant as, 104 Balladur, Jean, 173 Barbusse, Henri, 53, 66 Bardel, Pierre, 36 Bardot, Brigitte, 121, 123 Barford, N. F., 12, 68 Baucher, Yvonne, 99–100 beaches: changing norms on “textile,” 45, 84, 88; “free” (plages libres), 12, 198, 202, 208–9; municipal control of, 88, 189; in the Gironde, 202–3; topless, 45–46, 88, 122, 232n5, 258n51 beauty. See aesthetics of nudity beauty contests: at Cap d’Agde, 183–84, 187, 252n104; of Durvilles, 38–39; on the Île du Levant, 115–18. See also feminism; women 284 Index Beinzer, Gisela, 169 Berck, 53, 126 Berlin, nudism in, 33. See also Koch, Adolf Bernardin, Alain, 120 Bernin, Jean, 43 Berthet, Armand, 172 Berthou, André, 41 Bethléem, Louis, 31, 85 Biarritz, 147, 209 Bibey, Marcel, 151 bikinis, 88, 118, 109. See also cache-seins Billet, Michel, 162, 247n150 birth control: Durvilles’ criticism of, 33; illegality of, 230n110; 230n111; Lecocq’s acceptance of, 140; Neuwirth law legalizing , 198; openness about, after 1968, 187; in Vivre, 78–79 Blum, Léon, 35 body, acceptance of, 37, 55 Bois de Boulogne, 24, 30 Bois de Vincennes, 24, 73 Bonnaud, Édouard, 174 Bonnet, Bernard, 98–99 Bontemps, Charles-Auguste: defining “primitive ,” 73–75; as editor of Vivre intégralement 78–79, 83 Brandon, Raoul, 35 Brévannes, 16–17 Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme, 18 Britain, 16, 68, 76–77, 134, 182 British Sunbathing Society, 12–13 Brytow, Boris, 160–61 Carrières-sur-Seine, 128, 145, 149, 156 cache-seins, 28–29, 33–34, 45, 131. See also bikinis; beaches: topless cache-sexe, 28–29, 50, 71, 73, 81. See also minimum; slip Caillaud, Michel, 135, 201–2, 240n13 Calme et Santé, 78 camping: at Cap d’Agde, 163–89; at Choisel, 24; clothed after World War II, 93; clubs, 204; at Euronat, 200; at Montalivet, 134–35, 146–55; on the Île du Levant, 44, 93–95, 100–104, 108–12, 120–21; on the Pampelonne beach, 122; at Physiopolis, 34; primitive (sauvage), 93, 148–49, 166, 174 Canada, 102, 149, 210 Cannes, 43–44, 88, 92, 232n5 Cap d’Agde, 163–96, 198–99, 207–9 Cardin, Pierre, 205–6 Carrel, Alexis, 76 Carrières-sur-Seine, 128, 142–46, 150, 242n53 Carton, Paul: criticism of Durvilles and Kienné de Mongeot, 31; criticism of Vivre, 85; and German model, 53; influence on Durvilles, 15–18, 22, 24–25; influence on Lecocq, 129, 156; influence on Marcel Viard, 52; number of followers of, 48; during World War II, 91 CEM (Centre d’Essais de la Méditerranée), 106 censorship: in Hachette railway bookstores, 31; interwar...

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