This is the continuation of Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends and takes the reader through the end of WWI in Paris. I don't think I have much to say about it beyond it's excellent. If you're new to McAuliffe's books, thin...
DNF at 30℅.This was meant to tell all about the crazy years in Paris. I always had a fascination for that period at that specific place, so I thought I could do no wrong by requesting this at Netgalley.This was amazing until the second third, because of the way the book was structured. The author di...
DNF at 30℅.This was meant to tell all about the crazy years in Paris. I always had a fascination for that period at that specific place, so I thought I could do no wrong by requesting this at Netgalley.This was amazing until the second third, because of the way the book was structured. The author di...
I can't recommend this one more. The only thing I really felt it was lacking was a color insert of the wonderful art that is being discussed. I accidentally read the sequel, which covers 1900-1920, first. Both are first-class. It is astonishing how many of the cultural elite knew each other,...
I can't stress enough how ignorant I was about this time in history. Certainly, I knew the names (except Morisot's) and I knew Impressionism, but otherwise: zip. So as someone who had virtually no knowledge of the subject material going in, I found this book to be easy to read and well-written in...
Interesting series of essays on how the perception of various ideas has changed over the 20th Century with finding further information and looking at things in a different, and sometimes less politicised or polarised way.The first Essay is on Irish Political History: Guidelines and reflections, look...
You know when you've convinced yourself you've done something only to turn around and realize it was your brain playing a trick on you? Apparently 3-4 reviews completely fell through the cracks; this was one and that's horrible because this book was quite an experience for me. I'll confess, French...
This book makes it easy to get caught up in the intertwined lives of painters, composers, entrepreneurs, politicians, innovators, performers, and scientists from the later years of France’s Belle Epoque. After loving the first volume, Dawn of the Belle Epoque, I knew I had to read this title and was...
ARC courtesy of NetGalley. Much thanks! This was a wonderful study of Paris' cultural and business elite in the years 1900-1918. This is a world where doctors prescribe a bottle of champagne a day for nicotine addiction, the clothes are by Poiret and Chanel, the perfumes come from Coty, the mus...
bookshelves: published-2014, winter-20132014, net-galley, art-forms, e-book, history, nonfiction, paris, france, newtome-author Read from February 03 to 09, 2014 ARC received with thanks from Net Galley and Rowman & Littlefield in exchange for an honest review.From the description: In Twilight o...
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