Paris..a charachter in it's own right.  Join me in conversation with Professor Mike Rapport  Author of City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque published by Basic Books https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/basic-books/

If you are traveling to Paris this summer, have traveled to Paris or have ever dreamed of traveling to Paris this is a book you MUST read.  A great history book that can easily serve as a travelogue for the curious.

The Eifel Tower, the Metro, Department Stores, Cabarets, the word Bohemian,  and Sacre Coeur all came to life in Paris in the years prior to World War I. The mythical age known as  the Belle Epoque  in the years from 1870-1914 still lives in the imagination of the Western World. Join me in discussion with Professor Rapport as we describe these tumultuous creative years in the decades leading up to the tragedy of the Twentieth Century European Wars.