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What event is conventionally treated as the end of the Belle Époque?
The Belle Époque is conventionally dated from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the outbreak of World War I on 28 July 1914. The four decades of European peace, prosperity, and cultural innovation ended within five weeks of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Cultural figures of the period — Proust, Debussy, Renoir, Monet, Gustav Klimt — almost all outlived 1914, but the world they had worked in did not.
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The Belle Époque The Belle Époque was the period of European prosperity, peace, and cultural flourishing between 1871 (the end of the Franco-Prussian War) and 1914 (the outbreak of World War I). The term, French for 'Beautiful Era,' was applied retrospectively after the trauma of the First World War.
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