Just a few words to wish you all a very Happy New Year 2020. I wish you a bunch of stuff (you know what better than me). Personally? Of course health and happyness for my loved ones, but for the rest: I really hope the world is going to start […]
Old Postcards
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Bordeaux Docks and Roadstead, early 20th Century. This picture (is it a picture that has been colored by hand, or a drawing?) is interesting, as the buildings on the docks are the same a Century later, but obviously, the docks and the activity on the Garonne river are […]
I don’t think I’ve ever been to the Rambouillet Castle, nor in its park or forest. However, I doubt it has changed much since the day that picture was taken.
Blâmont is a small village in Meurthe-et-Moselle in Northeastern France. I don’t really know anything about it, except that my grandfather’s cousin stopped there at some point during World War One and sent that postcard to his family. (trying to find a similar contemporary view on the village […]
This is the Gare Matabiau in Toulouse (the city’s main train station), circa 1900. A very interesting picture – at least for me – as I rode the train there several times a month in the mid-90’s when I was an undergraduate student in Toulouse. All things considered, […]
So, this is what the Gare d’Amiens used to look like about a century ago : Quite impressive, isn’t it. It does look very different nowadays (and it does look quite cool too). I know it was remodeled in 1955, but I wonder whether that impressive entrance […]
Another World War One propaganda postcards from my grandfather’s collection: The text in the picture says “French people, let’s remember!” The legend says: Reconquered France (1917) – Nouvron – Fritz shelters in stone quarries, retaken in March 1917.
This postcard is pretty interesting in the fact that it is in color (black and white pictures that has been painted over). Also the cannon that is depicted, the French 75 mm field gun seems to have been a big deal back then, it even has its own wikipedia […]
Avignon – Porte de la République – City entrance and Boulevard St-Roch. As you can see on Google Maps, the walls are still there, but everything else has greatly changed.
