Large hotels were built during the Belle Époque ; cog-railways, built early in the 20th century, brought tourists to ever higher elevations, with the Jungfraubahn terminating at the Jungfraujoch after going through a tunnel in Eiger.

King Edward VII oversaw a partial redecoration in a Belle Époque cream and gold colour scheme.

Honeymoons in the modern sense ( i. e. a pure holiday voyage undertaken by the married couple ) became widespread during the Belle Époque, as one of the first instances of modern mass tourism.

The latter half of the Victorian age roughly coincided with the first portion of the Belle Époque era of continental Europe and the Gilded Age of the United States.

* October 30 – Louise Abbéma French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque ( d. 1927 )

The Belle Époque era, a period of peace and optimism marked by industrial progress and a particularly rich cultural exuberance is about at the opening of the Moulin Rouge.

* January 1903: the Moulin Rouge reopened after renovation and improvement work carried out by Niermans, the most “ Parisian ” architect of the Belle Époque ( amongst other works he designed the brasserie Mollard, the Paris Casino, the Folies Bergère in Paris, the Palace Hôtel in Ostend in Belgium, the rebuilding of the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz and the creation of the Hôtel Négresco on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice ).

This expression derives from clash of cultures, already used during the colonial period and the Belle Époque.

* Georges Feydeau ( 1862 – 1921 ), playwright of La Belle Époque

Georges Feydeau (, 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921 ) was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque.

While Europe was celebrating its Belle Époque ( Victorian era ), Ponce followed suit with its own exposition fair, the Ponce Fair.

The Edwardian period corresponds to the French Belle Époque period.

Napoleon III refurbished the château and Pau adding streets of Belle Époque architecture, before the fashion transferred to Biarritz.

The late 19th century, known as the Belle Époque, with its Fin de siècle retrospectively appeared as a " golden age " of European culture, cut short by the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

In the new town the Belle Époque Austro-Hungarian train station is notable.

Ottoman military reform efforts began after the Belle Époque of European civilization.

The Bonnot Gang ( La Bande à Bonnot ) was a French criminal anarchist group that operated in France and Belgium during the Belle Époque, from 1911 to 1912.

It has connotations of decadence, which are seen as typical for the last years of a culturally vibrant period ( La Belle Époque at the turn of the 19th to 20th century and until World War I ), and of anticipative excitement about, or despair facing, impending change, or both, that is generally expected when a century or time period draws to a close.

The Belle Époque was not even at its height in 1900, nor had the Edwardian era ( almost seamlessly following the Victorian era ) even started.

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A French poster from 1894 by Jules Chéret that captures the vibrant spirit of the Belle Époque.

The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque (; French for " Beautiful Era ") was a period in French history that is conventionally dated as starting in 1890 and ending when World War I began in 1914.

This work was published by G. T. van Belle and his co-authors in 2001.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

In 1986 Francine Lancelot's catalogue raisonné of baroque dance, entitled " La Belle Dance " was published.

Edgar took the first turn at school, and Dwight was employed as a night supervisor at the Belle Springs Creamery.

It was located on East Lafayette, then called Champlain Street, between Helen and East Grand Boulevard, near Belle Isle.

James Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751, ( March 5, 1751, Old Style, Julian calendar ), where his mother had returned to her parents ' home to give birth.

The album was only available during this Christmas period, and featured Belle & Sebastian and Snow Patrol, as well as numerous other bands such as The Flaming Lips and Teenage Fanclub.

Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel " May Belle " ( or " Maybelle ") Stephens, was a suffragist.

John and Annie Stephens had twelve children together ; the seventh child was May Belle Stephens, who married Eugene Mitchell.

Knowing her death was imminent, May Belle Mitchell wrote her daughter a brief letter and advised her:

When the Old Guard was surrounded and made its last stand at La Belle Alliance, he supposedly shouted in defiance to a call for their honorable surrender: " The Old Guard dies but does not surrender!

However, in Germany this depression was virtually a continuation of an economic morass that had blighted the country since the end of World War I, partly the result of the war reparations the country had been made to pay, and this morass had brought about the closure and demolition of the Grand Hotel Belle Vue, on the corner of Bellevuestraße and Königgrätzer Straße, thus enabling one revolutionary new building to struggle through to reality despite considerable financial odds.

Columbushaus was the result of a plan by the French retail company Les Galeries Lafayette, whose flagship store was the legendary Galeries Lafayette in Paris, to open a counterpart in Berlin, on the Grand Hotel Belle Vue's former site, but financial worries made them pull out.

The body, in excellent state of preservation, was exhumed on 15 October 1840 and ceremonially handed over to the Prince de Joinville in the French ship La Belle Poule.

After the death of Charles Hardenbergh in 1806, Truth, known as Belle, was sold at an auction.

The film was shot by the 77 year-old cinematographer Henri Alekan, who had worked on Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête.

Guthrie was born in Okemah, a small town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, the son of Nora Belle ( née Sherman ) and Charles Edward Guthrie.

Pitt's plan for an expedition to capture Belle Île was put into force in April 1761 and it was captured after a siege.

A few days later, he was appointed to serve on HMS Belle Poule as its master.

The first modern-day hot air balloon to be built in the United Kingdom ( UK ) was the Bristol Belle in 1967.

Truman was born in Ivydale, Clay County, West Virginia, to Newberry Truman and Rosa Belle Hardman ; the family settled in Chehalis, Washington several years later.

The 2003 album Blackberry Belle by The Twilight Singers led by Greg Dulli was written in tribute to director Ted Demme, a close friend of Dulli's.