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The Forum: The Belle Epoque: A Golden Age?

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Moulin Rouge, La Goulue, an 1891 lithograph by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec  (Photo credit  HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

15/04/2017 GMT

The Belle Epoque: A Golden Age?

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Paris in the 19th Century when permissiveness mixed with political and creative optimism

Paris in the early 19th Century when permissiveness mixed with political, commercial and creative optimism.

The Moulin Rouge in Paris is the risqué cabaret venue that encapsulates for many the 'Belle Epoque', a period of French and especially Parisian history around the turn of the 19th Century, where permissiveness mixed with political, commercial and creative optimism and when an extraordinary vitality and innovation seemed almost boundless. To explore the Belle Epoque, Dr Janina Ramirez is in Paris with the director of Le Petit Palais art gallery and museum Christophe Leribault, the associate artistic director of the Moulin Rouge, Janet Pharaoh, and professor of French history from Leeds University in the UK, Diana Holmes.

(Photo: An 1891 lithograph by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Credit: Honda /Getty Images)

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