Mary McAuliffe

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?" With the addition of an evocative new preface, Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the …

Mary McAuliffe s Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870 1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world Now in Twilight of the Belle Epoque McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century where creative …