Paris, City of Light

Paris between the wars: our impression is one of gaiety, frivolity, fashion, of exuberant living – a city whose lights were put out by the terrifyingly rapid advance of the German panzers in 1940. And so, in some ways, it was. But as Vincent Cronin shows in this compelling and original book – which encompasses social, intellectual, political and cultural history – the full picture was much more complex. Cronin examines developments in the arts, fashion and politics, and has something surprising