Au Bonheur des Dames

The Bon Marché Michael Miller’s book, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920, is an expansive and interesting look back on a era of Parisian history that is best represented by its then-current trend and social innovation, the department store. The book gives a fascinating account of the store from its beginning to eventual common place status in 1914. The book gives an insight on the factors in which the store saw success, such as the management, the labor, and new

Power and Manipulation in The Ladies Paradise As the world has grown throughout the centuries, females have generally been under the domination of males. This remained culturally entrenched until the late nineteenth century, when women began to appear in public more often and also began to join alongside men in the work force. In the network of employees and employers in the emerging institution of the Parisian department store, men and women depended on each other for survival in the workplace

industrialized city” (Lawall 466). Baudelaire and Zola were both able to portray the repulsive characteristics of Paris in their works either through the effects of alcoholism or inquitous intentions of consumerism. While both Flowers of Evil and Au Bonheur Des Dames share romance in their content, Baudelaire takes it further as he sees Paris as a realm where love is impossible, and to which describes the city as a cemetery of failed love. A view that would have never crossed the mind of Whitman as he submerged