Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impres Peter Van Dyck Tian is a prisoner in

Tian is a prisoner in her own life

we go backward and forward in time--from the town's early days

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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impres Peter Van Dyck Tian is a prisoner inFrom the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the Terrible Year by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee shows, it was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times