European Weathering History: The Century of Flirtation (Illustrated Edition): The Century of Flirtation (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Edward Fox
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: The History of European Decadence The Decadent Century presents a world of revelry to us through passionate poetry and exquisite engravings. It reveals the fact that in the days of the old regime, only a few lived in paradise. The absolute monarchy merely created opportunities and conditions for a handful of people to indulge in debauchery, allowing them to live a dissolute, parasitic life. And such licentiousness was something Europeans had never experienced even in the cultural periods of ancient Greece and ancient Rome.