Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune by Rupert Christiansen

Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune

Rupert Christiansen

448 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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As Christiansen illustrates with marvelous immediacy, the carnival facade of the Second Empire, presided over by the aging libertine Louis Napoleon and his unpopular fashion plate of a wife, the Empress Eugenie, masked an empty soul. The Empire ma...

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