Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends Book

Introduction: The Terrible Year (1870–1871)
Chapter 1: Ashes (1871)
Chapter 2: Recovery (1871)
Chapter 3: Scaling the Heights (1871–1872)
Chapter 4: The Moral Order (1873–1874)
Chapter 5: "This will kill that." (1875)
Chapter 6: Pressure Builds (1876–1877)
Chapter 7: A Splendid Diversion (1878)
Chapter 8: Victory (1879–1880)
Chapter 9: Saints and Sinners (1880)
Chapter 10: Shadows (1881–1882)
Chapter 11: A Golden Tortoise (1882)
Chapter 12: Digging Deep (1883)
Chapter 13: Hard Times (1884)
Chapter 14: That Genius, That Monster (1885)
Chapter 15: Onward and Upward (1886)
Chapter 16: Fat and Thin (1887–1888)
Chapter 17: Centennial (1889)
Chapter 18: Sacred and Profane (1890–1891)
Chapter 19: Family Affairs (1892)
Chapter 20: "The bell has tolled. . . ." (1893)
Chapter 21: Between Storms (1894)
Chapter 22: Dreyfus (1895)
Chapter 23: Passages (1896)
Chapter 24: A Shot in the Dark (1897)
Chapter 25: "J'accuse!" (1898)
Chapter 26: "Despite all these anxieties . . ." (1898)
Chapter 27: Rennes (1898–1899)
Chapter 28: A New Century (1900)
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