The Belle Époque: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Paris's Belle Époque – or 'Beautiful Era' – conjures up images of cafés, can-can dancers and sunny walks along the River Seine. But was life in the French capital in the late 19th and early 20th-century really as exciting as the scenes painted by Toulouse-Lautrec? Jon Bauckham talks to Dr Mike Rapport about the real history behind the Belle Époque, revealing why there was also a darkness to the 'city of light'. (Ad) Mike Rapport is the author of City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque (Bridge Street Press, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Light-Shadows-Paris-%C3%89poque/dp/0349128162/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:35.1	Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.
1:45.0	For many, the bell-a-pock or beautiful era conjures up images of cafes, cancann dancers,
1:52.9	and sunny walks along the River Sen.
1:55.5	But was life in late 19th and early 20th century Paris really as exciting as the scenes painted by Toulouse-Letrek.
2:04.5	In today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, John Borkham talks to Dr Mike Rappor
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