Serene - a novel of the Belle Époque
Serene - a novel of the Belle Époque, takes place from the late 1800s to World War I, a time with surprising similarities to today: sumptuous wealth, dizzying technological development, revolutionary art, tectonic changes in society, bitter - even deadly - political clashes, and the cataclysm of war….
The story follows people in Paris, New York and Constantinople, how they lived through the turmoil, rising to astonishing heights in society, fortune, fame and art; plummeting, enduring and surviving.
Prince André, young, handsome, suave, the toast of the Parisian salons; the Dequaine family of Chicago, from modest roots to Mrs Astor’s New York ballroom and a château on the Loire; two young men from Constantinople, one Jewish, one Muslim, making their way, their lives and their fortunes in Paris, where the Belle Époque was changing the world.
The story follows people in Paris, New York and Constantinople, how they lived through the turmoil, rising to astonishing heights in society, fortune, fame and art; plummeting, enduring and surviving.
Prince André, young, handsome, suave, the toast of the Parisian salons; the Dequaine family of Chicago, from modest roots to Mrs Astor’s New York ballroom and a château on the Loire; two young men from Constantinople, one Jewish, one Muslim, making their way, their lives and their fortunes in Paris, where the Belle Époque was changing the world.
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