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Was One Franc Enough to ‘Buy Your Way In’ to the Belle Epoque?

By Xavier Reader, The University of Western Australia

La Belle Epoque — translated as the good times or the beautiful era — was a phenomenon that took place throughout pre-war Western Europe, but is no better preserved than in metropolitan Paris, where the feeling and conceptualisation of Belle Epoque existed in a highly concentrated form.

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