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Dawn of the Belle Epoque : the Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends.
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 o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Terrible Year (1870-1871); Chapter 1 Ashes (1871); Chapter 2 Recovery (1871); Chapter 3 Scaling the Heights (1871-1872); Chapter 4 The Moral Order (1873-1874); Chapter 5 "This will kill that." (1875); Chapter 6 Pressure Builds (1876-1877); Chapter 7 A Splendid Diversion (1878); Chapter 8 Victory (1879-1880); Chapter 9 Saints and Sinners (1880); Chapter 10 Shadows (1881-1882); Chapter 11 A Golden Tortoise (1882); Chapter 12 Digging Deep (1883); Chapter 13 Hard Times (1884); Chapter 14 That Genius, That Monster (1885).