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Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism Library Science covering everything from the restaurant’sISBN 13: 9780802715166 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Publication date: 11 28 2006 Pages: 464 Sales rank: 196,206 Product dimensions: 6. 15(w) x 9. 33(h) x 1. 28(d) With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet. While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic,