num_pages: 448
description: Between 1869 and 1875, Paris was known to the world as "the new Babylon." A city obsessed with sex and money and ruled by the ailing tyrant Louis Napoleon and his ruthless wife Eugenie, Paris was a place of intensity, violence and volatility. Tracing Europe's most glittering capital as it tettered on the verge of the Franco-Prussian War and the horror that ensued, Christiansen evokes one of the most dramatic periods of modern history. photos.
language: English
title: Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune
titlecomplete: Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune
characters: Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Eugénie de Montijo, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Napoleon III, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Juliette Adam, Maxime Du Camp, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Jules Favre, Théophile Gautier, Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Otto von Bismarck, Karl Marx, Jarosław Dąbrowski, Victor Hugo, Léon Gambetta
genres: European History, Nonfiction, History, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 82
publisher: Penguin Books