{"product_id":"9781541647497","title":"City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque","description":"\u003cb\u003eA top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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-Cœur 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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. ","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917807829232,"sku":"9781541647497","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781541647497_p0.jpg?v=1763749998","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781541647497","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}