La Vie Parisienne: 1852-1870
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly detailed work of cultural and social history, La Vie Parisienne: 1852-1870 chronicles the glittering, decadent world of Paris during the Second Empire under Napoleon III, painting a vivid portrait of an era defined by spectacle, ambition, and excess. Joanna Richardson draws on a wealth of primary sources to reconstruct the salons, theatres, cafés, and boulevards that made Paris the undisputed capital of pleasure and modernity in the mid-nineteenth century. With elegant, authoritative prose, she presents the lives of the artists, courtesans, writers, and aristocrats who shaped this extraordinary period, from the rise of Offenbach's operettas to the scandalous reign of the grandes horizontales. Richardson illustrates how the city itself became a stage, where fashion, politics, and art were inseparable from the performance of everyday life. The result is a panoramic and deeply engaging narrative that captures both the brilliance and the underlying fragility of a society that would be shattered by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Author: Joanna Richardson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, A Studio Book, The Viking Press, New York
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly detailed work of cultural and social history, La Vie Parisienne: 1852-1870 chronicles the glittering, decadent world of Paris during the Second Empire under Napoleon III, painting a vivid portrait of an era defined by spectacle, ambition, and excess. Joanna Richardson draws on a wealth of primary sources to reconstruct the salons, theatres, cafés, and boulevards that made Paris the undisputed capital of pleasure and modernity in the mid-nineteenth century. With elegant, authoritative prose, she presents the lives of the artists, courtesans, writers, and aristocrats who shaped this extraordinary period, from the rise of Offenbach's operettas to the scandalous reign of the grandes horizontales. Richardson illustrates how the city itself became a stage, where fashion, politics, and art were inseparable from the performance of everyday life. The result is a panoramic and deeply engaging narrative that captures both the brilliance and the underlying fragility of a society that would be shattered by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.