Belle Epoque

Why our endless facination with the Belle Epoque and Late Stage High Victorian eclecticism, cabinet curiosity, and collecting, collecting and collection? Do we admire it for beauty? Do we admire their certainty of belief, manner and style rules? Why the fascination with mixing and remixing the classical? So much of my thoughts of Prague was about the certainty of belief and the ordering of desire that the people with money seemed to evince.