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| On the depiction of crimes of passion in the popular press, see Dominique Kalifa, L'Encre et le sang: Recits de crimes et societe a la Belle Epoque (Paris, 1995) and Anne-Louise Shapiro, Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris (Stanford, 1996). It all builds to that hoariest of literary tropes, in which the outbreak of World War I sweeps away the earthly paradise of La Belle Epoque. But in the 1970s and 1980s, as other downtown buildings were refurbished or newly constructed, the Woodward grew older and untidy, her Belle Epoque beauty worse for the wear, her lobby chandeliers collecting dust. |
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