Corsite

That’s been on my list for awhile, hoping to get around to it soon.

Couldn’t get past the pop-ups in the article, but…I’m about 1/5th of the way through Mary McAuliffe’s Dawn of the Belle Epoque, a history of the political, social, and cultural upheavel and efforts to rebuild Paris after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. It’s very readable, more like a vibes-based, “this is what a day in the life of 1870s Paris was like” rather than a deep scholarly examination of the issues.

She’s got a second volume, Twilight of the Belle Epoque that continues the story from around 1900 into the beginning of WWI.

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