Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune

Between 1869 and 1875 Paris was known to the world as “the new Babylon.” A city obsessed with sex and money and ruled by the ailing tyrant Louis Napoleon and his ruthless wife Eugenie Paris was a place of intensity violence and volatility. Tracing Europes most glittering capital as it tettered on the verge of the Franco-Prussian War and the horror that ensued Christiansen evokes one of the most dramatic periods of modern history. photos.