The Belle Époque: everything you wanted to know
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Welcome to the History Extra podcast. Fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine. For many The Bella Park. Or beautiful era.
Cundures up images of cafes, kan kan dancers, and sunny walks along the River Seine. But was life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Paris a Really as exciting as the scenes painted by Toulouse Le Trec. In today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, John Balcombe talks to Dr. Mike Rapport about the real history behind this lauded era. Revealing why there was also a darkness.
To the city of light. As ever, we've got a ton of questions to get through and not much time. But let's kick off with the most straightforward one. What do we actually mean? By the term Bellarpock.
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