Fireworks at dusk

Olivier Bernier

Paris has always been a magical place for artistic and cultural life. Now, in this splendid, sparkling book, Olivier Bernier chronicles Paris's most dazzling decade, the 1930s. For at that time Paris was especially brilliant; as art, culture, and society reached spectacular achievements, the city was considered to be the center of civilization. Yet at the same time, Paris was spiraling dangerously downward to the political and economic disaster of World War II. In Fireworks at Dusk, Olivier Bernier paints a stunning portrait of Paris amidst the vibrant hysteria - artistic, social, cultural, and political - that defined the decade. By the 1930s, following the whirlwind of the 1920s and transformed by the "war to end all wars," Parisian society was mad for pleasure, with great open-air parties, lavish costume balls, scintillating nightclubs, and splendid cafes.^ Here is Paris at a time...

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