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Dawn of the Belle époque : the Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and their friends
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Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to Paris in the late 1800's following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire and France's uncertain venture into the Third Republic. By 1900, Paris had recove...
Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to Paris in the late 1800's 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 were difficult, marked by struggles between republicans and monarchists, the Republic and the Church, and an ongoing economic malaise, darkened by a rising tide of virulent anti-semitism. Yet these same years also witnessed an extraordinary blossoming in art, literature, poetry, and music, with the Parisian cultural scene dramatically upended by revolutionaries such as Monet, Zola, Rodin, and Debussy, even while Gustave Eiffel was challenging architectural tradition with his iconic tower.--Cover.
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- Creator
- Mary McAuliffe
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2011]
- ©2011
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- xii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 9781442209275, 1442209275, 9781442209299, 1442209291
- OCLC
- ocn681502290
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-373) and index.
- The terrible year (1870-1871) -- Ashes (1871) -- Recovery (1871) -- Scaling the heights (1871-1872) -- The moral order (1873-1874) -- "This will kill that." (1875) -- Pressure builds (1876-1877) -- A splendid diversion (1878) -- Victory (1879-1880) -- Saints and sinners (1880) -- Shadows (1881-1882) -- A golden tortoise (1882) -- Digging deep (1883) -- Hard times (1884) -- That genius, that monster (1885) -- Onward and upward (1886) -- Fat and thin (1887-1888) -- Centennial (1889) -- Sacred and profane (1890-1891) -- Family affairs (1892) -- "The bell has tolled ..." (1893) -- Between storms (1894) -- Dreyfus (1895) -- Passages (1896) -- A shot in the dark (1897) -- "J'accuse!" (1898) -- "Despite all these anxieties ..." (1898) -- Rennes (1898-1899) -- A new century (1900)
Subjects
- Arts, French -- France -- Paris -- 19th century.
- Arts, French -- France -- Paris -- 20th century.
- French literature -- 19th century.
- French literature -- 20th century.
- Paris (France) -- History -- 19th century.
- Paris (France) -- History -- 20th century.
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.