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Twilight of the Belle Epoque

The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War

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Twilight of the Belle Epoque

By: Mary McAuliffe
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
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Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the listener from the multiple disasters of 1870-1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Isadora Duncan set their respective circles on fire with a barrage of revolutionary visions and discoveries. Such dramatic breakthroughs were not limited to the arts or sciences, as innovators and entrepreneurs such as Louis Renault, Andre Citroën, Paul Poiret, François Coty, and so many others - including those magnificent men and women in their flying machines - emphatically demonstrated. But all was not well in this world, remembered in hindsight as a golden age, and wrenching struggles between church and state, as well as between haves and have-nots, shadowed these years, underscored by the ever-more-ominous drumbeat of the approaching Great War - a cataclysm that would test the mettle of the City of Light, even as it brutally brought the Belle Epoque to its close.

©2014 Mary S. McAuliffe (P)2021 Tantor 19th Century 20th Century Europe France Modern War Latin America

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I thought the storytelling was very disjointed so it was difficult to recall who was who when time periods and events changed. A great story of the time and culture but hard to keep up and understand the narrative of each “character’s” life and career progression.

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I couldn't finish this audiobook because it was painful on my ears when the narrator switched to French for certain words. it was jarring and annoying. I can think of many audiobook I enjoyed more, such as a recent book about JS Sargent, Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee, Caroline Weber's Proust Duchess, The Great Improvisation abiut Ben Franclin in France. I really can't stand the switch to French accent by this narrator.

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