Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends

by Mary McAuliffe

Book Overview

A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising--Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire and France's uncertain venture into the Third Republic. By 1900, Paris had recovered and the Belle Epoque was in full flower, but the decades between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442209275
• ISBN13: 9781442209275
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.6"