CITY OF LIGHT, CITY OF SHADOWS: Paris in the Belle Epoque

Offers a new history of Paris's Belle Epoque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French. Uncovers a Paris riven by social anxieties and plagued by overlapping epidemics of poverty, political extremism, and anit-Semitism.