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- proper noun A period in
European history , in the decades before theFirst World War , characterized byartistic andcultural refinement
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hernesheir commented on the word Belle Époque
Absinthe, Maxim's, private train coaches, Garnier's staircases, haute couture, champagne, the bourgeois, Edwardians, Gatsby's, Biarritz, exclusivity and opulence, colonialism in Africa. And a flourishing of science and technology. Did the former excesses produce the latter advances?
September 1, 2010