{"product_id":"city-of-light-city-of-shadows-paris-in-the-belle-poque-9781541647497","title":"City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque","description":"\u003cb\u003eA top historian offers a new history of Paris's Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however, fin de siècle Paris was a city at war with itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCity of Light, City of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, Mike Rapport uncovers a Paris riven by social anxieties and plagued by overlapping epidemics of poverty, political extremism, and anti-Semitism. As the Sacré-Coeur and Eiffel Tower rose into the skies, redefining architecture and the Paris skyline, Paris's slums were plagued by disease and gang violence. The era, now remembered as a high point of French art and culture, was also an age of intense political violence, including anarchist bombings, organized right-wing mobs, and assassinations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Weaving together these stories of splendor and suffering with the fabric of the city itself, the book offers a brilliant account of Paris's Belle Époque--revealing the darkness that suffused the City of Light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541647497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448","brand":"Mike Rapport","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43766843965621,"sku":"9781541647497","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f41f8afd-e8c3-45fb-807a-c56a68da651a.jpg?v=1710819244","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/city-of-light-city-of-shadows-paris-in-the-belle-poque-9781541647497","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}