The Belle ?oque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond (Paperback)

Prologue: Time Regained
Part One: “The 1900 Epoque”
Dawn of the Century
Time in Flight
“Nothing mattered as long as we were dancing”
The Invention of “1900”
Part Two: Ah! la Belle Epoque!
Occupied Paris, “Belle Epoque” Paris?
Liberated Paris, Belle Epoque Paris
A Lively Mid-Century
Part Three: The Ordeal of the “Fin de Siecle”
The “Belle Epoque” Isn’t What It Used to Be
All of France in the Belle Epoque
A Very Broad “Belle Epoque”
Everything Is Cultural in the Era of the Vintage
Epilogue: Tangled Times
Postscript: The Belle Epoque and the Gilded Age, by Venita Datta
Notes
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index