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Language
English
Description
Paris between the wars: our impression is one of gaiety, frivolity, fashion, of exuberant living - a city whose lights were put out by the terrifyingly rapid advance of the German panzers in 1940. And so, in some ways, it was. But as Vincent Cronin shows in this compelling and original book - which encompasses social, intellectual, political and cultural history - the full picture was much more complex. Cronin examines developments in the arts, fashion...
2) Louis XIV
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1965 [c1964]
Language
English
Description
The author presents Louis as the personification of a glorious era in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and literature flourished. "The King's activities in war and politicsa re relegated to the periphery. While the complex figure of Louis himself occupies the center of the state, Mr. Cronin studies... such figures as Racine, Moliere, Lully, Mignard, Mansart, Le Notre, Vauban, Cassini."
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