Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Deeply researched and suavely written ... Smee has a gimlet eye, a seductive style and a novelist’s feel for character and incident ... Smee has written an inspiring book.
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Exquisite ... Vibrant and incisive.
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The clarity and conviction of Smee’s prose notwithstanding, this is not the kind of thesis susceptible to rigorous proof ... Smee is especially good at depicting the hardships of Paris under Prussian siege.
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