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1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 46 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Nancy Peterson. |
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A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising-Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" Mary McAuliffe takes the listener back to these perilous years following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire and France's uncertain venture into the Third Republic. By 1900, Paris had recovered and the Belle Epoque was in full flower, but the decades between were difficult, marked by struggles between republicans and monarchists, the Republic and the Church, and an ongoing economic malaise, darkened by a rising tide of virulent anti-Semitism. Yet these same years also witnessed an extraordinary blossoming in art, literature, poetry, and music, with the Parisian cultural scene dramatically upended by revolutionaries such as Monet, Zola, Rodin, and Debussy, even while Gustave Eiffel was challenging architectural tradition with his iconic tower. Through the eyes of these pioneers and others, including Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Clemenceau, Marie Curie, and Cesar Ritz, we witness their struggles with the forces of tradition during the final years of a century hurtling towards its close. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Arts, French -- France -- Paris -- 19th century.
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Arts, French -- France -- Paris -- 20th century.
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French literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
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French literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
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Paris (France) -- History -- 19th century.
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Paris (France) -- History -- 20th century.
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Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Peterson, Nancy.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666136050 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666136050 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT14125418 |
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