Paris on the brink The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and their friends
Book - 2018
"Vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s. The decade was marked by violence at home and the rise of Hitler abroad, even as glamour prevailed in fashion and Surrealism sparked new forms of artistic creativity"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xii, 359 pages : black and white illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-343) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781538112373
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Map of Paris
- Chapter 1. End of an Era (1929)
- Chapter 2. Rags and Riches (1929)
- Chapter 3. It Could Never Happen Here (1930)
- Chapter 4. The Ooh La La Factor (1930)
- Chapter 5. Navigating a Dangerous World (1931-1932)
- Chapter 6. Taking Sides (1933)
- Chapter 7. Bloody Tuesday (1934)
- Chapter 8. Sailing, Sailing (1935)
- Chapter 9. Coming Apart (1936)
- Chapter 10. War in Spain (1936)
- Chapter 11. End of the Dream (1937)
- Chapter 12. In War's Shadow (1938)
- Chapter 13. Dancing on a Volcano (1939)
- Chapter 14. Closing the Circle (1940)
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review