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The Belle Époque (French pronunciation:) or La Belle Époque (French for 'The Beautiful Era') was a ... Belle Epoque: Paris in the 1890s (Hamish Hamilton, 1972).
The Années folles (French pronunciation: [ane fɔl], "crazy years" in French) was the decade of the 1920s in France.It was coined to describe the social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of the period. [1]
Demi-monde is a French 19th-century term referring to women on the fringes of respectable society, and specifically to courtesans supported by wealthy lovers. [1] The term is French for "half-world", and derives from an 1855 play called Le Demi-Monde, by Alexandre Dumas fils, [2] dealing with the way that prostitution at that time threatened the institution of marriage.
Paris in the Belle Époque was a period in the history of the city during the years 1871 to 1914, from the beginning of the Third French Republic until the First World War. It saw the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the Paris Métro, the completion of the Paris Opera, and the beginning of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre. Three ...
Léopoldine Clémence Adèle Lucie Jeanne Hugo (French pronunciation: [leɔpɔldin klemɑ̃s adɛl lysi ʒan yɡo]; 29 September 1869 – 30 November 1941) was a Belgian-born French heiress and socialite during La Belle Époque. She was a granddaughter of French novelist, poet, and politician Victor Hugo.
Nicolas Bedos, the French writer-director behind the Cannes-premiering “La Belle Epoque,” is set to direct “Mascarade,” a French Riviera-set drama-comedy with Isabelle Adjani, Pierre Niney ...
Les Hôtels particuliers de Paris du Moyen Âge à la Belle Époque. Paris: Parigramme. ISBN 9782840962137. Leproux, Guy-Michel (1998). "L'hôtel de Guénégaud des Brosses, rue du Grand-Chantier 1651–1653", pp. 205–209, in François Mansart : Le génie de l'architecture, edited by Jean-Pierre Babelon and Claude Mignot. Paris: Gallimard.
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