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The Belle Époque (French pronunciation: [bɛlepɔk]) or La Belle Époque (French for 'The Beautiful Era') was a period of French and European history that began after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Sep 25, 2023 · La Belle Époque began with an ending. From March 18 to May 28, 1871, France was ruled by a revolutionary government that seized Paris in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War. Though it only ruled for two months, the Paris Commune marked a significant turning point in a post-Napoleonic France.
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Jan 30, 2019 · France's Belle Époque was the 'Beautiful Age', the moment when the industrial revolution produced modern consumerism and a change in culture.
May 17, 2022 · As the world moved into the early 20th century, World War I broke out and officially ended the Belle Époque. The period might have faded, but its angst and resentment left behind a singularly unique counterculture that contains lessons more than applicable to the modern day.
Oct 19, 2022 · Sandwiched between the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War One (WWI), La Belle Époque was a golden age of progress, innovation, and optimism in Europe.
The Belle Époque was a period of stability that France enjoyed after the tumult of the early years of the Third Republic, featuring defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the uprising of the Paris Commune, and the fall of General Georges Ernest Boulanger.
Jan 7, 2014 · BBC News, Paris. Paris in 1914 was a city giddy with the pace of industrial, scientific and cultural change, but deeply - and as it turned out, rightly - anxious about what the future would hold....
