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City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Prima Donna: A History by Rupert Christiansen
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Prima donnas have always provoked extreme reactions - branded as spoilt and manipulative, hated and resented. This book examines the truth behind the myth, seeking the real women behind the stereotypes. Women over 300 years from Pasta and Patti to Norman and Bartoli are put into historical and musical c ...Show more
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