{"product_id":"city-of-light-city-of-shadows-paris-in-the-belle-poque-9781541647497","title":"City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle ?poque","description":"\u003cb\u003eA top historian offers a new history of Paris's Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however, fin de siècle Paris was a city at war with itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCity of Light, City of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, Mike Rapport uncovers a Paris riven by social anxieties and plagued by overlapping epidemics of poverty, political extremism, and anti-Semitism. As the Sacré-Coeur and Eiffel Tower rose into the skies, redefining architecture and the Paris skyline, Paris's slums were plagued by disease and gang violence. The era, now remembered as a high point of French art and culture, was also an age of intense political violence, including anarchist bombings, organized right-wing mobs, and assassinations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Weaving together these stories of splendor and suffering with the fabric of the city itself, the book offers a brilliant account of Paris's Belle Époque--revealing the darkness that suffused the City of Light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Rapport \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of history at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The author of \u003ci\u003e1848: Year of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Napoleonic Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, Rapport lives in Stirling, Scotland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610268373266,"sku":"9781541647497","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a11d7322-3d0d-45a5-884c-77023ee4a5ab.jpg?v=1732338004","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/city-of-light-city-of-shadows-paris-in-the-belle-poque-9781541647497","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}