Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dal, Simone de Beauvoir, Andr Gide, Sylvia Beach, Lon Blum, and Their Frie (McAuliffe Mary)(Paperback)

Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during which workers flexed their economic muscle and their opponents struck back with increasing violence. As the divide between haves and have-nots widened, so did the political split between left and right, with animosities exploding into brutal clashes, intensified by the paramilitary leagues of the extreme right. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini escalated the increasingly hazardous international environment, while the civil war in Spain added to the instability of the times. Yet throughout the decade, Paris remained at the center of cultural creativity. Major figures on the Paris scene, such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Andr Gide, Marie Curie, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and Coco
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