by Mary McAuliffe
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...
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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