Abelard.org has a lovely short introduction to the fascinating era of peace, prosperity and scientific now known as La Belle Époque:
La Belle Époque, the Beautiful Era, is an expression born after the First World War to evoke the period after in the Napoleonic campaigns and before the watershed in Europe of the Great War - the years from 1890 to 1914. The name encompasses the realities of expansion, carefree attitudes, a faith in progress, and an affluence spreading down through society, together with a nostalgia. The nostalgia was an embellishing memory of reality coming out of the trauma of the First World War.
La Belle Epoque | France zone at abelard.org
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