Paris on the eve, 1900-1914 /
A portrait of Paris during the period 1900-1914.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1991.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Item Description: | "A Thomas Dunne book." |
Table of Contents:
- A bourgeois civilization
- A new confidence
- A new vigour
- A quest for sincerity: André Gide
- Redemptive suffering: Paul Claudel
- Apotheosis through art: Marcel Proust
- The birth of cubism: Pablo Picasso
- The harmonious city: Charles Péguy
- A music of nuance: Claude Debussy
- The Russian connection
- A world on the move
- Parisiennes
- Theatre: the sublime and the ridiculous
- Celebration with colour
- Attitudes to Germany
- Preparations for a duel
- Paris at war.