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Strapless: Madame X and the Scandal that Shocked Belle Epoque Paris
by Deborah Davis  Publisher Comments The story behind the legendary John Singer Sargent painting that propelled the artist to international renown but condemned his subject to a life of public ridicule. John Singer Sargent's Madame X is one of the world's best-known portraits. As the...
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The Anti-Semitic Moment
by Pierre Birnbaum Publisher Comments A controversial new look at a turning point in modern European history In 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a year-long frenzy. In small villages and big cities, angry crowds paraded through the streets, attacking Jews and destroying...
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Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939
by Mark Antliff Publisher Comments Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and...
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The Boundaries of Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940
by Mary Dewhurst Lewis Publisher Comments “The Boundaries of the Republic is a sophisticated analysis that makes a major contribution to the field of immigrant history, urban history, and the history of international human rights policy. This is an extremely important book.”—...
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French Peasant Fascism: Henry Dorgeres's Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939
by Robert O Paxton Publisher Comments French Peasant Fascism is the first account of the Greenshirts, a militant right-wing peasant movement in 1930s France that sought to transform the Republic into an authoritarian, agrarian state. Author Robert Paxton examines the Greenshirts in five case...
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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One
by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments "I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916 In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped...
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Between Marxism and Anarchism: Benoit Malon and French Reformist Socialism
by K Steven Vincent Synopsis Here is the first scholarly study of the life and thought of Benoit Malon (1841-1893), the most persuasive and visible spokesman for reformist socialism during the early years of the French Third Republic. Active in the generation of the French Left that...
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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-241) and index....
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The Glassworkers of Carmaux (Harvard Studies in Urban History)
by Joan Wallach Scott Review "A model for urban history studies. Utilizing the current techniques of quantitative measurements but without sacrificing any of the time-tested tools of the profession, [Scott] has traced the impact of industrialization and the development of class...
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The World of Proust: As Seen by Paul Nader
by Anne Marie Bernard Publisher Comments Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was one of the great geniuses of modern literature. Born in Auteil to wealthy bourgeois parents, he suffered delicate health as a child. During his high school years, he began to frequent salons such as that of Madame Arman, a...
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Wild Heart: a Life: Natalie Clifford Barney's Journey From Victorian America To the Literary Salons of Paris
by Suzanne Rodriguez Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-396) and index....
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Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France
by Rosalind H Williams Synopsis In "Dream Worlds," Rosalind Williams"" examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France....
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Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture
by Dudley Andrew Publisher Comments The story of Paris in the 1930s seems straightforward enough, with the Popular Front movement leading toward the inspiring 1936 election of a leftist coalition government. The socialist victory, which resulted in fundamental improvements in the lives of...
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La Grande Therese :Therese Humbert
by Hilary Spurling Synopsis Therese Humbert's life was one of wealth built solely on illusion and fantasy. When exposed in 1902, the scandal nearly destroyed the French Third Republic, and thousands of creditors were ruined. An unforgettable real-life story, this book describes the...
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La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the Century
by Hilary Spurling Publisher Comments A hundred years ago Thérèse Humbert was one of the most powerful women in France. Her salon was the center of Parisian life. Her wealth -- as the assumed illegitimate daughter of an American billionaire -- was fabled. She lived life on a grand scale...
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Shanghai on the Metro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars
by Michael Barr Miller Publisher Comments Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men--they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how...
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Victor Griffuelhes and French Syndicalism, 1895-1922
by Bruce Vandervort Book News Annotation Vandervort (modern European and African history, Virginia Military Institute) looks at the career of the French labor leader, examining his growth as a labor radical in the context of the history of French organized labor from the Paris Commune to the...
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Gambetta and the National Defence: A Republican Dictatorship in France
by J P T Bury Review Nothing could be more coolly dispassionate than this presentation of a most stirring drama; nothing more serenely objective than this contribution to a fierce controversy. The author has evidently no desire but to understand. He is neither virulently pro-...
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Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940
by Dana S Hale Synopsis Race and imperial identity during France's Third Republic...
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The trial of Madame Caillaux
by Edward Berenson Publisher Comments Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event...
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