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Dominique Kalifa, "The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 0231202091 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB | 25 MB
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 emblematic of what it means to be French. In a vast range of texts and images, it appears as a carefree time full of joie de vivre, fanfare and frills, artistic daring, and scientific innovation. The Moulin Rouge shared the stage with the Universal Exposition, Toulouse-Lautrec rubbed elbows with Marie Curie and La Belle Otero, and Fantômas invented automatic writing.