When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the
fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the
horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that
reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the
roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a
decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and
architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment,
transportation, and, most notably, behavior. The epicenter of all
this creativity, as well as of the era's good times, was
Montparnasse, where impoverished artists and writers found
colleagues and cafes, and tourists discovered the Paris of their
dreams. Major figures on the Paris scene-such as Gertrude Stein,
Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Proust-continued
to hold sway, while others now came to prominence-including Ernest
Hemingway, Coco Chanel, Cole Porter, and Josephine Baker, as well
as Andre Citroen, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce,
and the irrepressible Kiki of Montparnasse. Paris of the 1920s
unquestionably sizzled. Yet rather than being a decade of
unmitigated bliss, les Annees folles also saw an undercurrent of
despair as well as the rise of ruthless organizations of the
extreme right, aimed at annihilating whatever threatened tradition
and order-a struggle that would escalate in the years ahead.
Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe
brings this vibrant era to life.
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