List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Terrible Year (1870-1871); Chapter 1 Ashes (1871); Chapter 2 Recovery (1871); Chapter 3 Scaling the Heights (1871-1872); Chapter 4 The Moral Order (1873-1874); Chapter 5 "This will kill that." (1875); Chapter 6 Pressure Builds (1876-1877); Chapter 7 A Splendid Diversion (1878); Chapter 8 Victory (1879-1880); Chapter 9 Saints and Sinners (1880); Chapter 10 Shadows (1881-1882); Chapter 11 A Golden Tortoise (1882); Chapter 12 Digging Deep (1883); Chapter 13 Hard Times (1884); Chapter 14 That Genius, That Monster (1885)
Summary
A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising--Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire and France's uncertain venture into the Third Republic. By 1900, Paris had recovered and the Belle Epoque was in full flower, but the decades between were difficult, marked by struggles between republicansand monarchists, the Republic and the Church, and an ongoing economic malaise, darkened by
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-373) and index
