Bals: Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century

<p>Nicholas Foulkes is a British historian, author, and journalist who has written books on subjects as diverse as James Bond, porcelain, and the trench coat. He is best known for his critically acclaimed trilogy of nineteenth-century histories: <i>Scandalous Society</i>, a biography of Count d’Orsay; <i>Dancing Into Battle</i>; and <i>Gentlemen and Blackguards</i>. In addition to <i>Bals</i> and <i>High Society</i>, he has written four other books for Assouline. Foulkes is luxury editor of British <i>GQ</i>, co-founder and editor-in-chief of <i>Finch’s Quarterly Review</i>, and a contributing editor of <i>Vanity Fair</i>.</p>