Part 1 of 4 · freeIntroduction
The Belle Époque was the stretch of relative peace between the end of the Franco-Prussian War (1871) and the outbreak of the First World War (1914). People believed in science, in progress, in reason.
For the well-off classes of Western Europe, these were four decades of comfort and invention. But under the varnish, social divisions and national rivalries were already burning, and they would blow everything apart.
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- 2When technology changed daily life
- 3Behind the scenery
- 4New art, then the fall
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary18 terms explained in a tap.
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