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Film, Video The Ruins of Paris, 1871

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Title

  • The Ruins of Paris, 1871

Summary

  • Much of central Paris was burned during the Franco-Prussian War that saw the death of the Commune. The resulting ruins of Paris at once became a tourist attraction, and the subject of remarkable photographs made for the tourist trade. The novelist Gustave Flaubert came to visit the ruins, and found in them a lesson for his contemporaries: if only they had understood the novel he had published some months earlier, "Sentimental Education," this cataclysmic destruction never could have happened. Peter Brooks explores that cataclysm, and the specific role of photography in the historiography of the moment.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2016-06-02.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Franco-Prussian War, Commune, Paris, Gustave Flaubert, ruins of paris, photographs

Notes

  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Peter Brooks.
  • -  Recorded on 2016-06-02.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690209

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Ruins of Paris. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-02, 2016. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690209/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2016) The Ruins of Paris. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-02. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690209/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Ruins of Paris. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-02, 2016. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690209/>.