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belle epoque

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belle é·poque  (-pk)
n.
An era of artistic and cultural refinement in a society, especially in France at the beginning of the 20th century.
[French : belle, beautiful + époque, era.]
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On the depiction of crimes of passion in the popular press, see Dominique Kalifa, L'Encre et le sang: Recits de crimes et societe a la Belle Epoque (Paris, 1995) and Anne-Louise Shapiro, Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris (Stanford, 1996).
Judicial authority and popular justice: crimes of passion in ... by Ferguson, Eliza Earle / Journal of Social History
It all builds to that hoariest of literary tropes, in which the outbreak of World War I sweeps away the earthly paradise of La Belle Epoque.
Alan Moore comes like a thief in the night: a writer with a ... by Cavanaugh, Tim / Reason
But in the 1970s and 1980s, as other downtown buildings were refurbished or newly constructed, the Woodward grew older and untidy, her Belle Epoque beauty worse for the wear, her lobby chandeliers collecting dust.
There goes the neighborhood: the last low-rent office building in ... by Larson, Christina / Washington Monthly
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