Montmartre: A Cultural History Hewitt Paperback Liverpool University Press

Montmartre: A Cultural History\nby Nicholas Hewitt\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Nicholas Hewitt\nTitle: Montmartre: A Cultural History\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781789620481\nISBN-10: 1789620481\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\u2018What is Montmartre? Nothing. What must it be? Everything\u2019, proclaimed Rodolphe Salis in 1881, when his cabaret Le Chat Noir launched an entertainment boom in the 9th and 18th Arrondissements of Paris which would dominate the worlds of popular and high culture until the First World War. Montmartre\u2019s music-halls, circuses, cinemas, accompanied by extra frisson of crime and prostitution, coexisted with burgeoning art movements sprung fro.