Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dundurn : Made available through hoopla, 1998
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781554884957 (electronic bk.) MWT11824896, 1554884950 (electronic bk.) 11824896
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914. Tempting poets, painters, writers, and composers from across Europe, the city relied on one man to move among them all-Guillaume Apollinaire. His contemporaries called him brilliant, mad, whimsical. He was the bastard son of an Italian cavalry officer and a Polish woman addicted to gambling, but nevertheless let it be rumoured around Paris that he was the son of the pope
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