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By Colin Jones
From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic approximately Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial resource of fascination for 2,000 years. during this definitive and illuminating historical past, Colin Jones walks us throughout the urban that used to be a plague-infested charnel residence throughout the heart a while, the bloody epicenter of the French Revolution, the foundation of nineteenth-century Impressionist painters, and lots more and plenty extra. Jones's masterful narrative is stronger by means of various photos and have boxes—on the Bastille or Josephine Baker, for instance—that whole a colourful and complete portrait of a spot that has continued Vikings, Black dying, and the Nazis to come to be the center of a resurgent Europe. this can be a exciting significant other for historical past buffs and backpack, or armchair, tourists alike.
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15 Because significant numbers of French politicians maintained business associations with the press, and because a striking number of French diplomats were writers whose contributions either appeared in, or were covered by, the press, a word about French journalists is in order—especially considering the role that politicians and diplomats expected them to play in the propagation of France’s image abroad. Typically lower-middle-class and therefore urban in origin, typically well educated by the standards of the day, and again, typically male, here was yet another instance of elite formation.
More to the point, in the European cockpit it had the potential to be either a powerful ally or a mighty enemy. And if further evidence were needed that it had come of age, filled out, made itself desirable, there were unmistakable signs of German courtship. Indeed, the truth was that the turn of the century marked a heating up of an old Franco-German rivalry, this time not only on land and sea, but also in the minds of America’s educated elite. Here, there was a prize to be won, by whichever foreign ministry managed most successfully to insinuate its way into America’s affections.
Indeed, the truth was that the turn of the century marked a heating up of an old Franco-German rivalry, this time not only on land and sea, but also in the minds of America’s educated elite. Here, there was a prize to be won, by whichever foreign ministry managed most successfully to insinuate its way into America’s affections. 27 In the American context, it was the steady promotion of German language and culture in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s that prompted a French counteroffensive on the same linguistic and cultural terrain.