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Twentieth century Paris : 1900-1950 : a literary guide for travellers

Gransard, Marie-José2020
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Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the 20th century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to contribute to flourishing avant-garde movements, as the Left Bank became a new centre of creativity. It drew tourists and travellers, but also many exiled from their home countries or escaping political persecution, and those seeking freedom from social constraints. The romantic myth of Paris persists, but Marie-José Gransard explores the darker side of the City of Lights. She brings her subjects to life by describing where and how they lived, what they wrote and what was written about them, through a wide-ranging literary legacy of diaries, memoirs, letters, poetry, theatre, cinema and fiction.
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Imprint:
London : Tauris Parke, 2020.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780755601752 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
1195816
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