13 Facts About Stanley Loomis

Stanley Loomis was the author of four books on French history: Du Barry, Paris in the Terror, A Crime of Passion, and The Fatal Friendship.

Stanley Loomis's books have been published in eight languages and reprinted numerous times.

Stanley Pennock Loomis was born in New York City in 1922, the eldest of three sons of an industrial chemist and businessman, Chauncey C Loomis, and his wife Elizabeth.

Stanley Loomis grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and attended the Lenox School in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Stanley Loomis studied English at Columbia University, but his studies were interrupted by the war.

Stanley Loomis was trained in Japanese interpretation and served as a translator and intelligence officer in the Pacific.

Stanley Loomis was in Japan at the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945.

Stanley Loomis wrote his first book, a biography of Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, after returning to the United States.

Stanley Loomis married Virginia Lindsley Gignoux in 1960 and they had a son, Craig Putnam Loomis, in 1961.

Stanley Loomis spent time at the Chateau de Missery in Burgundy, a property belonging to a cousin.

Stanley Loomis died in the American Hospital of Paris on December 19,1972, after being hit by a motorist on the Place de la Concorde, just two days before what would have been his 50th birthday.

Stanley Loomis's family returned to the United States after his death.

Stanley Loomis is fascinating in his remarks about the plight of the impoverished rural nobility, 'pedigreed peasants,' about the homicidal mania of Marat and his followers, about the clash of personalities in the shadow of the guillotine.