Mary Mcauliffe

Twilight of the Belle Epoque (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870-1871 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, André Citroën, Paul Poiret, François Coty, and so many others-including those magnificent men and women in their flying machines-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 War-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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442221642
• Artikelnr.: 41068570

Autorenporträt

Mary McAuliffe received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland and has taught at several universities and lectured at the Smithsonian Institution. For many years she was a regular contributor to Paris Notes. She has traveled extensively in France and is the author of Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Enter the King (1900) Chapter 2: Bohemia on the
Seine (1900) Chapter 3: Death of a Queen (1901) Chapter 4: Dreams and
Reality (1902) Chapter 5: Arrivals and Departures (1903) Chapter 6:
Alliances and Misalliances (1904) Chapter 7: Wild Beasts (1905) Chapter 8:
La Valse (1906) Chapter 9: Winds of Change (1907) Chapter 10: Unfinished
Business (1908) Chapter 11: Idyll (1909) Chapter 12: Deep Waters (1910)
Chapter 13: Between Heaven and Hell (1911) Chapter 14: Dancing on the Edge
(1912) Chapter 15: Fireworks (1913) Chapter 16: "Dear France, dear country"
(1914) Chapter 17: "This war which never ends" (1914-1915) Chapter 18: "Ils
ne passeront pas" (1916) Chapter 19: Dark Days (1917) Chapter 20: Finale
(1918) Bibliography