City of light, city of shadows : Paris in the Belle Époque
Rapport, Michael2024
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Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge. But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative history, beneath the elegant veneer Paris was at war with itself. For the Belle Époque was also an era of social and religious unrest, arguments over women's emancipation and violent clashes over what it meant to be French.
Main title:
City of light, city of shadows : Paris in the Belle Époque / Mike Rapport.
Author:
Rapport, Michael, author
Imprint:
London : The Bridge Street Press, 2024.
Collation:
432 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780349128160 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
944.3608944.36
Language:
English
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BRN:
2438491
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