The Belle Epoque: Paris in the Nineties

by Raymond Rudorff

Paris in the NinetiesHardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0841502250
• ISBN13: 9780841502253
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Saturday Review Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Truly A beautiful epoch

For beginners of the period, this is the first book one should read when seeking an introductory to Belle Epoque Paris. Though some historians define the Belle Epoque as 1889-1914, others 1890-1914, or 1900-1914, or even 1871-1914, it doesn't matter with this book. While the book begins with the building of the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Paris Exposition and ends with the Paris Exposition of 1900, everything in between flows together without the book reading like a bland, boring time line of events. From the theater, to the arts, to the upper and middle class, all the way into the heart of Montemarte and Montparnasse of the popular cabarets of Le Chat Noir and the infamous Moulin Rouge, Paris in the Nineties presents you with an exciting and always informative glimpse of what life was like in that time.