LaBelleEpoque in France fin XIX siecle.ppt

la belle epoque en France

1. La Belle Époque
The fairy-tale state of mind of the
privileged classes occurring between
1890 - 1914

2. Origins
•took place during a period of world peace
•was the product of a new class that had
acquired wealth through the industrial
revolution and technological advances
•based on a new kind of order imposed by an
insecure privileged class

3. Characteristics
•Denial of the grim realities of life
•Embrace of manners and etiquette
•Rejection of showing any kind of emotions
•Deification of technology

4. Dormitory at a Russian factory

5. Salvation Army “coffins” were used as beds for the destitute.

6. Poor children were
dependent on collective
soup kitchens.

7. Children at work under terrible conditions

8. Welsh mine workers

9. Ascot

10. Fashions seen at Ascot, 1905

11. Sandown

12. A prim and proper British Edwardian family

13. The “Gibson Girl” image of the beautiful, well-bred woman
with upswept hair and tiny waist was created by the American
cartoonist Charles Dana Gibson and inspired by his wife.

14. The grim reality of a poor family

15. The children of the wealthy were brought up by servants and had
little contact with their parents.

16. Diana of Dobsons, a play based on the grind and squalor of the London
shop girl. Shop assistants worked long hours for low pay. Their work was
physically exhausting and demanded considerable concentration as well
as the effort of maintaining an air of politeness.

17. Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

18. The 1900 Paris
World’s Fair
Exposition Universelle

19. The Machine Gallery

20. National Idiosyncrasies
Characteristics

21. France

22. Pursuit of pleasure, culture, and
beauty

23. Paris was the fashion capital of the world

24. Marcel Proust
•His novel Remembrance
of Things Past revealed
that beneath the surface
of French refinement,
there existed all kinds
of vulgar and perverse
behaviors.

25. England

26. Pursuit of power through the
colonization of one quarter of the
world
African banana plantation

27. Queen Victoria King Edward VII
(1819 – 1901) (1841-1910)

28. Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas
• Oscar Wilde refused to
play by Victorian rules.
• When he publicly came
“out of the closet”, he
was condemned to jail.

29. United States

30. Pursuit of wealth

The Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina

31. Consuelo Vanderbilt (1876–1964) was “sold” to the highest title in England.

32. Forces that Destroyed La Belle
Époque
•Anarchism
•Artists and intellectuals
•The suffragette movement
•Technology
•World War I

33. Anarchism
•Anarchists did not
believe in the rule of
law.
•As many as five heads
of states were
assassinated by
anarchists.
President McKinley’s assassination (1901).

34. A police file card of a Russian woman suspected
to be an anarchist

35. Artists and Intellectuals
•began to question the
accepted rules and
ideas
•explored the interior
world of the psyche as
well as the hypocrisy
of society
•created their own
conventions
Sigmund Freud

36. Freud’s couch

37. The Suffragette Movement
•Women wanted equal
rights and the right to
vote.
•Women protested their
dehumanization into
men’s “playthings”.
Protestor being led away by bobbies

38. A suffragette on a hunger strike in prison being force-fed

39. Emeline Pankhurst,
founder of the British
suffragette movement

40. Emily Davison threw herself under the King’s Derby horse Anmer on June 4, 1913.

41. Technology
•was deified by La Belle
Époque
•was the means of living a
more leisurely life style
•leveled class barriers
when it became more
accessible to many
•turned treachorous when
used to create the new
WW I weaponry

42. Entrance to the 1900 Paris World Fair

43. Interior, 1900 Paris World Fair

44. German three-phase motors and transformer factory

45. Ford Motors auto workers’ assembly line

46. The front page of the New York Times, April 16, 1912

47. World War I
•The reality of the war could not be kept at
bay by the privileged classes.
•Many aristocrats and rich people
volunteered and were killed.

48. Assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand
The Archduke had just visited the victims
of a bomb intended for him when Gavrilo
Princip stepped out of the crowd and killed
him.
Gavrilo Princip being apprehended
by Serbian police.

49. The European Powers, many of whom were related by blood,
attended Archduke Ferdinand’s funeral in Vienna.

50. The reality of World War I

51. The end of La Belle Époque