Book description
Discover the erotic world of interwar Paris.
From the artists’ balls of Montparnasse to the cabarets, brothels and discreet bookshops of the French capital, City of Pleasure: Paris Between the Wars explores a city intoxicated by its own decadence. Historian Alexandre Dupouy brings its erotic culture into focus through photographs,…
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Alexandre Dupouy’s City of Pleasure is an uncensored photographic plunge into the erotic life of Paris between the Wars. Dupouy, a bookseller and collector, pulls back the bedcovers on a Paris that rejected post-war austerity for extravagance, partying, and erotic experimentation. The book reveals the delights of its fetish scene, licensed brothels, gay nightclubs, the first sex shop chains, erotic photography, and pornography. It is a titillating and fascinating look at the sexual excesses of what was arguably the world’s most decadent city. For anyone drawn to the faded glamour and hidden vices of interwar Paris, this is an intoxicating…
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