La Belle Époque in Paris

Amanda March 1, 2013

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Destination: Paris, France Dates: September 17 – 24, 2013 For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler 1-855-LIT-TRVL Readings: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories - selections Description: After a humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising, Paris in 1871 was a shambles. Yet out of this demoralized rubble, 19th-century Paris became the centre of European culture. Out of the political and social tumult, ideas collided and a creative dynamism took root, beginning ...

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