La Belle Epoque

Costume ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 1 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
James Laver
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
World War ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Belle Époque

It was a happy notion on the part of the Costume Society to devote a symposium to La Belle Epoque. The phrase is now generally accepted as covering a period of about twenty-five years, from 1890 to the outbreak of World War I, and although it was by no means "belle" in some of its aspects, it does appear, from many points of view, to have been one of those "enchanted islands in the sea of Time" to which we look back with nostalgia. It has been called the triumph of "High Life", the last good time of the upper classes, the "Garden Party and Casino Period" when English summers were without a cloud and when winter came — well! there was always "Monty".

scholarly journals Women of the bohemian circles of Paris in establishment of French theatricality of “Belle Epoque”

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Mariya Vadimovna Vyrodova
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Life Strategy ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
World War ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
The Russian Language

The period of last quarter of the XIX – beginning of the XX century in France after the World War I receives a name “Belle Epoque”. It is the time of development of entertainment industry, origination of mass culture, where women play a special role. The object of this research is the life strategies of women of the bohemian circles of Paris of “Belle Epoque”. The subjects is the women in French theatricality of the late XIX – early XX century. The goal of the work consists in determining the role played by thre women with a new female life strategy in formation of the phenomenon of French theatricality of “Belle Epoque”. Methodology is based on the sociocultural approach towards the problem, and suggests detailed analysis of the rare memoires of the performers, actresses and dancers, which were not published in Russian or translated into the Russian language. It is noted that women in the bohemian circles reconsidered their strategies in achieving life goals, putting the questions of career and personal growth to the forefront. They also were able to respond to the desires of audience of the late XIX – early XX century, attracting attention to the art of dance, pantomime, theatre, bringing their personal outlook upon the manner of performing. Women performed equal to men, often superseding them in some fields of art due to their natural femininity and talent.

Carmen’s Music-Hall Embrace

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Christoforidis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
World War ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Music Hall ◽  
Belle Époque

The fluidity between the worlds of opera and popular entertainment during the Belle Époque admitted Carmen and her Spanish impersonators into music hall and popular theatrical spectacle in the early years of the twentieth century. Chapter 8 explores the hybrid Franco-Spanish entertainment scene in Paris, examining the presence of Carmenesque themes in the chanson market, in the context of a significant subgenre of Spanish-styled songs. During the years leading up to World War I, this new Spanish fashion extended onto the stage in dance-focused Spanish spectacles, which blended new and old styles and often played with references to Bizet’s famous opera. Carolina “la Belle” Otero reached the final stage of her stellar career with a rare—although not unprecedented—transition from music-hall Carmen to operatic protagonist, performing the role at the Opéra-Comique in 1912.

scholarly journals La représentation des poétesses dans la presse de la fin de la Belle Époque (1908-1914)

Çédille ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Wendy Prin-Conti ◽  
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
First World

"This work aims at observing and comparing the image of French poets and poetess given by the national press during the late Belle Époque. More and poetess given by the national press during the late Belle Époque. More precisely, we study the photographs published by Les Annales politiques et littéraires, Femina and Comœdia, between 1908 and 1914. We shall prove that female writers obtained public recognition immediately before the First World War."

scholarly journals Ion Valjan: With the Voice of Time. The Hypostasis of a Romanian Belle Epoque

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Ştefania Maria Custură
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
World War ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Second World

Abstract Ion Valjan is the literary pseudonym of Ion Al. Vasilescu (1881-1960), famous lawyer, playwright, writer of memoirs, publicist and politician. Dramatic author in the line of Caragiale, he was the manager of The National Theatre in Bucharest between 1923 and 1924, and general manager of theatres between 1923 and 1926. He wrote drama, he collaborated with Sburătorul, Vremea, Rampa, being appreciated by the exigent literary critique of the inter-war period. After the war, in 1950, he was involved in a political trial, accused of high treason, espionage for Great Britain, and got sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, where he died. Valjan is the author of the only theatrical show, played in a communist prison, Revista Piteşti 59. Ion Valjan’s memoirs, With the Voice of Time. Memories, written during the Second World War, represent a turn back in time, into the age of the author’s childhood and adolescence, giving the contemporary reader the chance to travel in time and space, the end of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the past century projecting an authentic image, in the Romanian version of a Belle Epoque, interesting and extremely prolific for the Romanian cultural life. Also, evoking his childhood years spent in cities by the Danube (Călăraşi, Brăila, Turnu-Severin), Valjan unveils the harmonious meeting of different peoples and their mentalities, which transform the Danube Plain into an interethnic space of unique value.

scholarly journals The Founding of Damascus University 1903-1936: An essay in praise of the pioneers

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 179-200
Author(s):  
Sami Moubayed
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
French Mandate ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Future

Damascus University, a pioneer in Levantine academia, has generally been ignored by Syriatologists and historians. Its story speaks volumes about the founding fathers of the Syrian Republic, however, and the anti-colonial movement under French Mandate rule. This article looks its the founding yea8rs under Ottoman times and ends with the tenure of its founder and first president Riḍà Saʿīd. Given that collapse of higher education in Syria at present, because of the current war, it is imperative to look back and see how Syrian academics emerged from times of war to revamp their university after the turmoil of World War I and French occupation. Present academics might find inspiration and a roadmap for the future in looking at the university’s past and the deeds of its founders.

The Mechanism of Accelerator Action

1957 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 962-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Krebs
Keyword(s):  
Physical Chemistry ◽  
World War I ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Unsaturated Rubber ◽  
Technical Properties ◽  
Points Of View

Abstract In the year 1839, Goodyear discovered that, on treatment with sulfur at elevated temperatures, natural rubber loses its plasticity and becomes elastic. Around the time of World War I, it was discovered that the reaction of the sulfur with the unsaturated rubber hydrocarbons could be promoted by the action of so-called vulcanization accelerators. The reaction then takes place not only faster and at lower temperatures but, in addition, one also needs less sulfur and the vulcanizates acquire considerably better technical properties. Accordingly a tremendous number of compounds have been examined as accelerators of vulcanization and much effort has been applied to develop accelerators with the most satisfactory properties. Today, accelerators are known which permit vulcanization at room temperature. In the past, the mechanism of accelerator action has been studied mostly with the methods of organic and physical chemistry. In the following, an attempt will be made to consider the problem from the viewpoint of the inorganic chemist. One can attempt to interpret the catalysis from two points of view. Either the reactivity of the unsaturated natural rubber hydrocarbon is enhanced, or the sulfur will be converted into a more reactive form. Twiss concluded from his investigations that the latter possibility is the more likely. Subsequently, this assumption has been supported by further observations. In particular, the discovery of Peachey pointed in this direction, since natural rubber is vulcanizable at room temperature if it is treated successively with hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide gases. The sulfur which is formed by this reaction is in the nascent state and is very reactive.

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