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- Dictionarybelle époque/ˌbɛl eɪˈpɒk/
noun
- 1. the period of settled and comfortable life preceding the First World War: "a romantic, belle-époque replica of a Paris bistro"
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- Belle Époque
Period in European history, 1871–1914
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque 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. Occurring during the era of the French Third Republic, it was a period characterised by optimism, enlightenment, regional peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, an... Wikipedia
