Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune

Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune by Christiansen, Rupert. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780140129809.

Between 1869 and 1875, Paris was known to the world as "the new Babylon." A city obsessed with sex and money and ruled by the ailing tyrant Louis Napoleon and his ruthless wife Eugenie, Paris was a place of intensity, violence and volatility. Tracing Europes most glittering capital as it tettered on the verge of the Franco-Prussian War and the horror that ensued, Christiansen evokes one of the most dramatic periods of modern history. photos.