Don’t ask me who Fabienne is, I have no idea. But my guess would be a famous actress or singer from the 1900’s. I try to google her, but couldn’t find anything.
Old Postcards
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In my old postcards collection, there are a certain number of people pictured. I have trouble finding information about this, but I have the feeling that some of the people portrayed are the people who wrote the card. Did people in the early 20th Century went to photographers to […]
I don’t know much about him. I just know that his name was Marcelin or Marcel (not sure if Marcelin was a nickname or his real name), that he was my grandpa’s cousin, and that he was in the French navy during WW1 and later. He wrote a […]
A short while ago, I told you about all of those old postcards from the beginning of the 20th Century that I own and that originally belonged to my grandfather. A certain number of them were sent by one of his cousin’s who was sent to the front of […]
This is the way the Place de la Bastille looked about 100 years ago : And this is the way it looks now : On the postcard, one can see the building that use to stand before the Opera Bastille was built. The July Column […]
This was the Garonne River banks in Agen, circa 1900. The picture was approximately taken in the same spot as the first picture of the previous post. I have a small story to tell you in order to explain this old postcard. It starts in 1885. This is […]