The golden moments of Paris : a guide to the Paris of the 1920s / by John Baxter
- Bib ID:
- 8541513
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Baxter, John, 1939-, author
- Online Access:
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- Description:
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- New York : Museyon Inc., [2014]
- ©2014
- 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
- ISBN:
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- 9781938450464
- 1938450469
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9780984633470
- 0984633472
- Series:
- Museyon guides.
- Full contents:
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- Scrap heap of the gods: Montparnasse and Les Montparnos
- Wild in the streets: Les Apaches
- The Russians are coming: Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
- "Who was that masked man?": Fantomas, the vampires, and Judex
- A well-dressed war: Paris in World War I
- The First Lady of Bohemia: Sylvia Beach and Shakespeare Company
- Perfume wars: bottling the blue hour
- Where the 20th century was: Gertrude Stein and her salon ; Duelling painters: Matisse vs. Picasso
- The kindest cut: the bob fad and the Garconne scandal
- A killer named desire: the businesslike M. Landru
- Monkey business: Serge Voronoff and the quest for youth
- Faraway places: the birth of tourism
- Faster, higher, stronger, meaner: the 1924 Olympic Games
- "Little girl, can you do the Charleston?": le jazz hot
- Artificial paradises: absinthe, opium, and the culture of forgetting
- In the white city: the birth of art deco
- The man who sold the Eiffel Tower: the Victor Lustig and Stavisky scandals
- As though it knew: the unknown woman of the Seine
- Of thee I sing: American songwriters in Paris
- Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love: coffee and the cafe
- Little gentlemen: gay and lesbian Paris
- The razor and the eye: Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, and surrealism
- The heavyweight champion of Montparnasse: Hemingway's knockout
- A half-crazed cad: the wild ride of Harry and Caresse Crosby
- Love for sale: Maisons closes and poules de luxe
- Wasp and pear: the Fitzgeralds and the Murphys
- The golden moments of Paris: walking tours.
- Notes:
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- Includes four walking tours.
- Description based on print version record.
- Reproduction:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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- Also Titled:
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- Guide to the Paris of the 1920s
- Paris of the 1920s
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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