Nothing last forever.. The moral hypocrisy of Victorian era HAD to break down or relax one day, as it did...
And WWI killed the Belle Epoque and all.
It wasn't anymore hypocritical than us-just hypocritical in different ways.
Still, Victorian era was rather... stiff, let's say.
Leave Victorian stuff.
Belle epoque spirit is more Paris that London.
In any case is more Bertie that Victoria.
But i think that belle epoque is more that can can and champagne,is optimism about progress,is old European tradition that meet the new tecnology,is Europe at center of the scene.
If you want a never ending belle epoque,avoid WW-I and others mayor wars.
I remember a beautifull counterfactual story in which Franco-Prussian war not happen,and the XX century is a pleasent and peacefull sequel of late XIX.
Is that the story where Talleyrand's ghost advises Napoleon III?I remember a beautifull counterfactual story in which Franco-Prussian war not happen,and the XX century is a pleasent and peacefull sequel of late XIX.
Wasn't that in What If 2?
Well, it is not in OTL either. Austria's still independent. In that timeline the dividing line is just a bit farther north is all.I liked it though I disliked the whole idea that a unified Deutschland could not exist for such a world to occur.