Table of Contents
Introduction: The Terrible Year (1870-1871)
1 Ashes (1871)
2 Recovery (1871)
3 Scaling the Heights (1871-1872)
4 The Moral Order (1873-1874)
5 "This will kill that." (1875)
6 Pressure Builds (1876-1877)
7 A Splendid Diversion (1878)
8 Victory (1879-1880)
9 Saints and Sinners (1880)
10 Shadows (1881-1882)
11 A Golden Tortoise (1882)
12 Digging Deep (1883)
13 Hard Times (1884)
14 That Genius, That Monster (1885)
15 Onward and Upward (1886)
16 Fat and Thin (1887-1888)
17 Centennial (1889)
18 Sacred and Profane (1890-1891)
19 Family Affairs (1892)
20 "The bell has tolled...." (1893)
21 Between Storms (1894)
22 Dreyfus (1895)
23 Passages (1896)
24 A Shot in the Dark (1897)
25 "J'accuse!" (1898)
26 "Despite all these anxieties..." (1898)
27 Rennes (1898-1899)
28 A New Century (1900)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Dawn of the Belle Epoque
The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
By Mary McAuliffe