When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends

by Mary McAuliffe

Book Overview

When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Ann es folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them--one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442253320
• ISBN13: 9781442253322
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"