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This lovely edition of Edward Cucuel’s memoir, first published in 1900, will delight anyone who loves Paris. His stories capture not only an iconic city, but that time of sophistication, escapism, and fashionable despair known as la belle epoque. Cucuel brings to life the artists, poets, and their muses, along with the cafés and cabarets that defined fin de siecle Paris. He unwittingly name-drops with abandon as he rubs elbows with such artists as Auguste René Rodin, carouses with Louis Loeb, and frequents coffee shops where poets like Paul Verlaine and Aristide Bruant hold court.
Accompanying Cucuel’s illustrated accounts are witty and cogent asides by modern-day student abroad, Rosemary Sandoval. Sandoval fearlessly skewers the status quo, providing a surprising counterpoint to Cucuel’s century-old memories. Throughout, detailed footnotes and archival images enhance this literary and artistic adventure.
