La Belle Époque in Paris

Destination:

Paris, France

Dates:

September 17 – 24, 2013

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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 cre...