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City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$35.00 AUD
Category: European | 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
Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Conquered the World by Rupert Christiansen
$50.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
A freshly researched and challenging reassessment of a unique phenomenon, exploring passionate conflicts and outsize personalities in a story embracing triumph and disaster. Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such l ...Show more
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