Good Looks & Bad Manners: American Women Who Shook Up Paris, from the Belle Epoque to the New Wave

A narrative history of American women's love affair with Paris, from the Belle Epoque to the gritty and glamorous jazz age, through WWII and the cultural transformations beyond.

Starting in the late-19th century, the era of ocean liners and Impressionism, young American women followed their ambitions across the Atlantic to make a home in the irresistible city of Paris. Long before Emily in Paris, or even the advent of mass tourism, these plucky Americans fell in love with Paris and the freed...