The Belle Époque photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) produced 300 such plates, called autochromes. Ninety of them have survived, and they are now reproduced at full scale in ...

Just another day at the Place de l’Opéra, a busy place due to its proximity to numerous shops and a business district. The ...

Jacques Henri Lartigue Simone Roussel, Rouzat, 1913 At a young age, Lartigue mastered the medium of photography using his hand-held Kodak camera - first introduced in 1888 - to harness the ...

Louise Baring’s collection concludes in 1914, when war brought the whimsical spirit of the belle époque to an abrupt end. Fortunately, as a subsequent photographic career defined by stylish ...

Undeterred, I’ve come to Paris to unpack what I can of the belle époque — a golden age of bohemia, optimism and technological progress that flourished in the peaceful years between 1871 and ...

The French capital fell under the spell of the Belle Epoque from 1880 through to the start of the First World War. Catch the atmosphere of the "beautiful era" this spring, when the honey-hued ...