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on a quiet road that led seemingly to nowhere

It is packed with background detail and anecdote

remembering the past with a man who can no longer remember

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City of Light, City of Shadows Poison Ivy on a quiet road thatParis in the Belle poque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacr Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge. But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new history,