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Yet these women are rarely discussed in their own right. Podcast: Play in new window Download. Bienvenue, and welcome back to the Land of Desire, a podcast about the weird, wacky and wonderful stories from French history. So save this episode for the treadmill.
In this case, it was an entire generation of men, and they forged this kind of nostalgia while they were huddled in trenches, shielding themselves from mustard gas, and trying their best to live through the wretchedness of World War One.
After the world had spent four years in the trenches, the previous 40 years were looking like beautiful, shimmering dreams.
Yet we now know that those buildings and streets came at a terrible cost, isolating the poor and leading to the horrible uprising of With this in mind, I want to spend this week talking about some of the greatest victims of this historical revisionism: the women of golden age Paris. The soldiers were thinking of young ballerinas twirling around on the stage, but not of the wealthy old men behind stage, waiting for the curtain to drop so they could buy a ballerina for themselves.
