Europe is beating America: Part I

Paris is in the middle of the Nine Shift. We had to go and find out.

100 years ago, Paris and France was near the end of its Belle Epoque, years of wonderful prosperity and happiness. Great Britain experienced a similar period in the first 13 years of the 20^th century. 

France was the world’s center for art. It made most of the movies. And it had the largest auto factory in the world.

Then France, along with the rest of Europe and the UK, lost its world leading position in the new Industrial Age of the 20^th century, hastening its decline with a destructive world war that sapped its finances, youth and manufacturing. The United States surged. Hollywood took over the movies from France, and Detroit took over the auto industry.  Charlie Chaplin, who started his career in 1911 in Paris, moved to America. (to be continued)

 Photo by Julie. Shop window in Paris