Pleasures of the Belle Epoque - Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France

Bastille Day celebrations, cabarets and music halls, street spectacles, bicycle races, two of the grandest world's fairs ever held - these are just some of the vaunted public enjoyments of the French in the decades before the first World War. In this book Charles Rearick takes us back to the France of Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Cheret for a tour of its 'places of pleasure,' recreating them through words, photographs, and art of the period...