Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso,

Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War

Mary McAuliffeâ€™s Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870â€“1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, 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 a barrage of revolutionary visions and discoveries. Such dramatic breakthroughs were not limited to the arts or sciences, as innovators and entrepreneurs such as Louis Renault, AndrÃ© CitroÃ«n, Paul Poiret, FranÃ§ois Coty, and so many othersâ€”including those magnificent men and women in their flying machinesâ€”emphatically demonstrated. 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 years, underscored by the ever-more-ominous drumbeat of the approaching Great Warâ€”a cataclysm that would test the mettle of the City of Light, even as it brutally brought the Belle Epoque to its close. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, McAuliffe brings this remarkable era from 1900 through World War I to vibrant life.
Country USA
Manufacturer Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-03-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-03-16
Format	Kindle eBook

Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War

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