ALL meanings of belle epoque
belle é·poque
B b - noun belle epoque the period of comfortable well-established life in Europe before World War I 3
- noun belle epoque the era of elegance and gaiety that characterized fashionable Parisian life in the period preceding WWI 3
- noun plural belle epoque the period (1871–1914) between the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War I, characterized by relative peacefulness in Western Europe and by marked advances and productivity in the arts, literature, technology, etc. 1