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Sep 25, 2023 · By 1914, with World War I on the horizon, nostalgia for those turn-of-the-century years reached a peak, and the period was given the name La Belle Époque. Below, explore this “beautiful era” through a gallery of colorized photos that show off La Belle Époque in stunning vividness.
May 17, 2022 · Coming out of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Belle Époque France set about rapidly modernizing, making railroads and telephone lines, and adopting mass-market consumerism. On paper, things looked on the up-and-up.
At the end of the Belle Époque, in about 1910, a new style emerged in Paris, Art Deco largely in reaction to the Art Nouveau. The first major architects to use the style were August Perret (1874–1954), and Henri Sauvage (1873–1932).
On the one hand, it is proclaimed as a unique moment of the cultural influence of France, which today remembers less the triumph of the radical Republic (or the vigorous social struggles) than the 1900s’ extraordinary capacity for aesthetic innovation and artistic creation.
Oct 3, 2022 · It was only in the 1930s that writers began to describe the belle époque as something distant and ‘other’, something to be blamed (as in the bitter polemic by Paul Morand) or cherished (as in the sentimental flânerie of André Warnod).
Jan 7, 2014 · Did Parisians ever have the feeling that they were living through the last days of an era - what we know of now as La Belle Epoque? I doubt it.
Sep 14, 2021 · Toulouse Lautrec, the Folies-Bergère, Maxims, the Moulin Rouge, art nouveau—these are just some of the images and places we associate with the Belle Époque, those golden years in France before the outbreak of the First World War.
Dec 30, 2010 · Known in retrospect as the Belle Epoque (beautiful era), the period spanning the late 19th century through […] It was a time of sheer opulence: exotic feathers, haute couture and the perfection of sparkling Champagne.
Nov 8, 2022 · When people think of France, among the most immediate images to spring to mind are those of 1900s Paris – Paris, city of love and romance, with its Art Nouveau metro signs; brightly-lit brasseries ...
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Jul 6, 2021 · The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture—the “Belle Époque.” The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains...
