Belle Époque

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The Belle Époque was a period of relative peace, prosperity, and flourishing arts and culture in Europe, especially France, spanning roughly from the late 19th century until World War I.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural era
historical period
appliesToJurisdiction Third French Republic
associatedWith Art Nouveau architecture in Paris
Belle Époque posters
Moulin Rouge
Parisian café culture
automobiles
cabaret
café-concerts
can-can dance
department stores
early cinema
electric lighting
grand boulevards in Paris
salon culture
country France
endCause outbreak of World War I
endTime 1914
fieldOfWork architecture
art
design
fashion
literature
music
theatre
hasCharacteristic bourgeois culture
cultural innovation
economic prosperity
flourishing arts
optimism
relative peace
technological progress
urbanization
hasPart Art Nouveau movement
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Symbolism
early modernism
fin de siècle
influenced 20th-century modern art
European urban planning
interwar culture in Europe
influencedBy Industrial Revolution
Second Industrial Revolution
label Belle Époque
languageOfName French
mainLocation Europe
nativeLabel Belle Époque
notableEvent Exposition Universelle of 1889
Exposition Universelle of 1900
significantPlace Barcelona
Berlin
Brussels
London
Milan
Paris
Vienna
startTime late 19th century


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