Prologue: Time Regained
Part I: "The 1900 Époque"
Dawn of the Century
Time in Flight
"Nothing mattered as long as we were dancing"
The Invention of "1900"
Part II: Ah! la Belle Époque!
Occupied Paris, "Belle Époque" Paris?
Liberated Paris, Belle Époque Paris
A Lively Mid-Century
Part III: The Ordeal of the "Fin de Siècle"
The "Belle Époque" Isn't What It Used to Be
All of France in the Belle Époque
A Very Broad "Belle Époque"
Everything Is Cultural in the Era of the Vintage
Epilogue: Tangled Times
Postscript: The Belle Époque and the Gilded Age, by Venita Datta
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Dominique Kalifa (1957-2020) was professor of history and director of the Center for Nineteenth-Century History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His books include Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld (Columbia, 2019).
Venita Datta is professor of French at Wellesley College.