Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Map of Paris
Chapter 1 End of an Era (1929)
Chapter 2 Rags and Riches (1929)
Chapter 3 It Could Never Happen Here (1930)
Chapter 4 The Ooh La La Factor (1930)
Chapter 5 Navigating a Dangerous World (1931–1932)
Chapter 6 Taking Sides (1933)
Chapter 7 Bloody Tuesday (1934)
Chapter 8 Sailing, Sailing (1935)
Chapter 9 Coming Apart (1936)
Chapter 10 War in Spain (1936)
Chapter 11 End of the Dream (1937)
Chapter 12 In War’s Shadow (1938)
Chapter 13 Dancing on a Volcano (1939)
Chapter 14 Closing the Circle (1940)
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the Author

Mary McAuliffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, has taught at several universities, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the Barnes Foundation, and the Frick Pittsburgh. She travels extensively in France, and for many years she was a regular contributor to Paris Notes. Her books include Clash of Crowns, Dawn of the Belle Epoque, Twilight of the Belle Epoque, When Paris Sizzled, and Paris, City of Dreams. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Reviews

McAuliffe (When Paris Sizzled, 2016) continues her career-defining cultural survey of Paris as the global depression gives rise to fascism and another world war.... McAuliffe, once again, presents a memorable collage of Parisian legends.
*Booklist*

Paris on the Brink vividly evokes the cultural and political life of Paris during the 1930s. The cast of characters is comprehensive. Hemingway, James Joyce, André Gide, Coco Chanel, Henry Miller, and Josephine Baker, among many other notables, mingle in a bright narrative that wheels from portrait to portrait like a whirligig overshadowed by the lengthening specter of war. McAuliffe has written a truly absorbing book.
*Frederick Brown, author of The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914–1940*

Rich and fascinating, this cleverly woven tapestry of stories from the turbulent 1930s shows how the political and artistic worlds of Paris came together in the powerful march of history. Paris on the Brink delivers a genuinely engaging and dramatic account of a profoundly significant era.
*Laird Easton, author of The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler*

A breezy, rollicking, and vastly entertaining popular history of the international cultural and intellectual life of Paris during the troubled decade just before the Second World War.
*Victoria Best, author of An Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Literature*