City of Light, City of Shadows - Mike Rapport

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. In City of Light, City of Shadows, Mike Rapport uncovers a Paris riven by social anxieties and plagued by overlapping epidemics of poverty, political extremism, and anti-Semitism. Weaving together these stories of splendour 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.

Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448