Summary of Mary McAuliffe's Twilight of the Belle Epoque

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#1 Picasso and his friend Carles Casagemas arrived in Paris from Barcelona in mid-October 1900. They were tasked with seeing the Exposition Universelle, which was scheduled to close on November 12. They had little time to dally if they wanted to see it.

#2 In Paris, the engineers and construction workers were working on the city’s new underground Métro system. It was completed in July 1900, just in time for the opening of the exposition.

#3 The Métro was a new form of transportation that revolutionized Paris life. It was designed by Hector Guimard, who was chosen to design its many entrances. They were elegant but light, with iron and glass as the preferred materials.

#4 The Paris Métro was built by Hector Guimard, a French designer who had won the contract to build the stations. Guimard’s hair-trigger temper and keen sense of self-worth would soon get him in trouble.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822514836

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Insights on Mary McAuliffe's Twilight of the Belle Epoque

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Picasso and his friend Carles Casagemas arrived in Paris from Barcelona in mid-October 1900. They were tasked with seeing the Exposition Universelle, which was scheduled to close on November 12. They had little time to dally if they wanted to see it.

#2

In Paris, the engineers and construction workers were working on the city’s new underground Métro system. It was completed in July 1900, just in time for the opening of the exposition.

#3

The Métro was a new form of transportation that revolutionized Paris life. It was designed by Hector Guimard, who was chosen to design its many entrances. They were elegant but light, with iron and glass as the preferred materials.

#4

The Paris Métro was built by Hector Guimard, a French designer who had won the contract to build the stations. Guimard’s hair-trigger temper and keen sense of self-worth would soon get him in trouble.

#5

The 1900 Paris games were the second in the history of the modern games, and they lasted from May through October. The track and field events took place on the far western side of Paris on a rough field at the Racing Club de France, in the Bois de Boulogne’s Pré Catelan.

#6

Until now, Louis had been the black sheep of his family. He had built his own company, Renault Frères, in 1899, and had built the first motorcar race, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in 1900.

#7

Ravel’s brother, an engineer, took him to visit factories when he was young. He was amazed by the wonder of industrial progress, and he would later incorporate this into his music.

#8

Ravel was a composer who was influenced by the music of Mozart, Chopin, Chabrier, and the Russian composers, especially Mussorgsky, Borodin, and Rimsky-Korsakov. He had strong reservations about the music of Beethoven and Wagner, as well as the works of those French turn-of-the-century composers led by Camille Saint-Saëns and Vincent d’Indy.

#9

Ravel and Debussy had met in 1900, when Debussy played excerpts from his opera Pelléas et Mélisande for them. They became close friends, and their professional lives occasionally crossed paths.

#10

Poiret began to dress the stars of the theater, including Réjane and Sarah Bernhardt. He also began to cultivate the patronage of leading actresses, using them to introduce and advertise his fashions on stage and off.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Picasso’s parents had never envisioned his departure for Paris as a permanent move. In fact, they had dug deep into their pockets to pay for his round-trip railway fare, leaving them little to live on for the rest of the month. But how often did such an honor come to a family.

#2

Picasso, Casagemas, and another friend from Barcelona, who soon joined them, stayed in a studio near Montmartre. They wrote to their parents about how hard they were working, and how