Paris on the brink
Subtitle: the 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and their friends
By: Mary McAuliffe
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781538112373
Subjects: Intellectuals; Nineteen thirties; Civilization; Biography; Artists
Description: "Vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s. The decade was marked by violence at home and the rise of Hitler abroad, even as glamour prevailed in fashion and Surrealism sparked new forms of artistic creativity"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: End of an era -- (1929); title: Rags and riches -- (1929); title: It could never happen here -- (1930); title: The ooh la la factor -- (1930); title: Navigating a dangerous world -- (1931-1932); title: Taking sides -- (1933); title: Bloody Tuesday -- (1934); title: Sailing, sailing -- (1935); title: Coming apart -- (1936); title: War in Spain -- (1936); title: End of the dream -- (1937); title: In war's shadow -- (1938); title: Dancing on a volcano -- (1939); title: Closing the circle-- (1940).