Paris 1919

How can you make peace when what you really want is revenge?
In the wake of 37 million casualties at the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson took his dream of a League of Nations to Paris to seek "peace everlasting," joining over 30 international delegations who descended upon the great city for the most ambitious peace talks in history. Helmed by the Big Four (the United States, France, Great Britain, and Italy), the Paris Peace Conference ultimately and ironically sowed the seeds of resentment that led to World War II.

In Paris, we sing about women, the Eiffel Tower and the boulevards. In Paname, the loves of bagpipes, the Seine and the bistros of the suburbs. But it is the soul of the same city that beats in the songs taken up in chorus by the whole world when he sings of France in the Roaring Twenties and the post-war period.
Patrick Fremeaux
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For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars”, the Big Three - President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau - met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days, which saw new political entities - Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them - born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.