Author: Lascelles WraxallPublisher: London, J. Maxwell
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Second Empire as Exhibited in French Literature 1852 - 1863
Author: Lascelles WraxallPublisher: London, J. Maxwell
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The French Second Empire
Author: Roger PricePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139430971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This is a most thoroughly researched book on Napoleon III's Second Empire. It makes a vital contribution to the quarter-century of French history following the 1848 revolution, which saw major developments in the 'modernization' of the French state and in its relationships with its citizens.
City of Light
Author: Rupert ChristiansenPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541673433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eugè Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann transformed the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a "City of Light" characterized by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new rail stations and department stores, and a new system of public sanitation. City of Light charts this fifteen-year project of urban renewal which -- despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption, and bankruptcy -- set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and created the enduring landscape of modern Paris now so famous around the globe. Lively and engaging, City of Light is a book for anyone who wants to know how Paris became Paris.
Domestic Space in France and Belgium
Author: Claire MoranPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501341707
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Domestic Space in France and Belgium offers a new addition to the growing body of work in Interior Studies. Focused on late 19th and early 20th-century France and Belgium, it addresses an overlooked area of modernity: the domestic sphere and its conception and representation in art, literature and material culture. Scholars from the US, UK, France, Italy, Canada and Belgium offer fresh and exciting interpretations of artworks, texts and modern homes. Comparative and interdisciplinary, it shows through a series of case-studies in literature, art and architecture, how modernity was expressed through domestic life at the turn of the century in France and Belgium.
Changing France
Author: Anne GreenPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783081007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The French Second Empire (1852-70) was a time of exceptionally rapid social, industrial and technological change. French literature also underwent fundamental changes during this period as writers embraced ‘modernity’ and incorporated new technologies, fashions and inventions into their work. Focusing on cultural areas such as exhibitions, transport, food, dress and photography, ‘Changing France’ shows how apparently trivial aspects of modern life provided Second Empire writers with a versatile means of thinking about deeper issues. This volume brings literature and material culture together to reveal how writing itself changed as writers recognised the extraordinarily rich possibilities of expression opened up to them by the changing material world.
The London Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art, & Science
Author: The Publishers' Circular
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Author: Buffalo Library
Author: