ART-PRESENTATION: Toulouse Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque, Part I
In Paris in the 1880s, class boundaries were clear-cut along the Champs-Élysées, where a new aristocracy of bankers and financiers held court. The Third Republic was plagued by corrupt politics. And the poor working class mocked it all, loudly, in Montmartre. Known for its revolutionary politics and cabaret culture, the …