Meaning of La Belle Époque | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“Absinthe is a clear green liqueur that was in vogue during La Belle Époque, an era of peace and plenty from 1890 to 1914 in Paris.”

“The arts flowered in France during La Belle Époque, especially in Paris.”

“The woodshed is a rather grand affair, a capacious lean-to of honeyed stone built behind the dovecot by the Jacques family in La Belle Époque.”

“It was not the city of la Belle Époque, though, that featured in the communiqué justifying the attacks on the French capital.”

“Let’s end this on a classy note, by returning to Paris during la Belle Époque, when everyone knew how to dress.”

“The property was reopened in summer 2016 after an extensive restoration bringing it back to the gilded glory of la Belle Époque.”

“Hopper traveled to Paris in 1906 during the waning la Belle Époque, “the Beautiful Era,” leading to World War I. It was the Paris of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s tangled lunchers and Gustave Caillebotte’s sauntering flâneur.”

“[Yves] Mirande promised me that he would be up and about soon, and would show me how men revelled in the heroic days of la belle époque, but I had a feeling that the bell was cracked.”

“But is [Marcel] Proust being read, for all this? Has our fascination with his life and with a glamorized version of la belle époque taken the place of reading his formidable work?”

“Miss [Lydia] Thompson was a smart businesswoman, and surely helped break down America's prudish morals. However, my personal brand of burlesque owes more to the fabulous showgirls of la belle époque in Paris.”

“This claustrophobic picture (aka L'Apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close) is a frank, unexploitative account of life in a smart Parisian brothel in 1899 and 1900. It demonstrates that la belle époque was less belle for the girls than for their wealthy clients, though better than walking the streets or working in a sweatshop.”

““This isn’t how France should be,” he [Pascal Lamy] says. “During la belle époque [the late 19th and early 20th century], France achieved huge economic success and the state was barely involved, so allowing French creativity to bloom.” The end of la belle époque was marked by the start of the First World War.”

“And as good a place as any are the private houses of the Habsburgs, which now are open to the public. They embody what Henry James called “the palpable, imaginable, visitable past” — in this case, la belle époque as if frozen in amber.”

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