This term describes the carefree, high-spirited, and optimistic mood resulting from a good economy and satisfaction with the government that pervaded France from the 1870s to the beginning of the First World War
a. Belle époque
b. fête galante
c. rococo
d. Impressionism
a
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A. three B. four C. five D. two
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