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Twilight of the Belle Epoque : the Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and their friends through the Great War / Mary McAuliffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McAuliffe, Mary, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectuals--France--Paris--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Social change--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Social conflict--France--Paris--History--20th century.
- Social conflict.
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--France--Paris.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Paris (France)--History--1870-1940.
- Paris (France).
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Paris (France)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Twilight of the Belle Epoque, Mary McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Isadora Duncan set their respective circles on fire with their revolutionary visions and discoveries. But all was not well in this world, remembered in hindsight as a golden age, and wrenching struggles between Church and state as well as between haves and have-nots shadowed these yea
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Map; Introduction; Ch01. Enter the King; Ch02. Bohemia on the Seine; Ch03. Death of a Queen; Ch04. Dreams and Reality; Ch05. Arrivals and Departures; Ch06. Alliances and Misalliances; Ch07. Wild Beasts; Ch08. La Valse; Ch09. Winds of Change; Ch10. Unfinished Business; Ch11. Idyll; Ch12. Deep Waters; Ch13. Between Heaven and Hell; Ch14. Dancing on the Edge; Ch15. Fireworks; Ch16. "Dear France, dear country"; Ch17. "This war which never ends"; Ch18. "Ils ne passeront pas"; Ch19. Dark Days; Ch20. Finale; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-400) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8182-899-8
- 1-4422-2164-X
- OCLC:
- 874323039
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