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Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune

By Rupert Christiansen

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
1996
ISBN
0140129804, 9780140129809
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
15 MB (15685207 bytes)
Pages
448\466
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-04-09 04:39:57

Description

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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