Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune
Rupert Christiansen
Between 1869 and 1875, Paris was known to the world as "the new Babylon." A city obsessed with sex and money and ruled by the ailing tyrant Louis Napoleon and his ruthless wife Eugenie, Paris was a place of intensity, violence and volatility. Tracing Europe's most glittering capital as it tettered on the verge of the Franco-Prussian War and the horror that ensued, Christiansen evokes one of the most dramatic periods of modern history. photos.
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Anno:
1996
Casa editrice:
Penguin Books
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
448
ISBN 10:
0140129804
ISBN 13:
9780140129809
File:
DJVU, 14.96 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1996