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World War I

Albi - General View and St. Cecilia Cathedral

Albi - General View and St. Cecilia Cathedral

I've already shown you pictures of Albi taken in the 21st century. I'll show you more soon, but here is one taken more than a century ago. Jean Sazy sent it to his wife Jeanne while he was stationed in the town before being sent to

War of 1914 - on the front lines

War of 1914 - on the front lines

There's a lot to unpack with this card. It’s the first in a long series of postcards from World War I. First, it’s interesting that it says "War 1914." This was at the very beginning of the war. Obviously, people had no idea how

First Battle of the Marne – Vassincourt

First Battle of the Marne – Vassincourt

Of all the postcards I inherited from my grandfather, I find the ones depicting locations from the First World War the most fascinating. We are so used to being surrounded by images nowadays that we forget it was not always the case. Those postcards most likely served an important illustrative

Bastille – July Column – circa 1916

Bastille – July Column – circa 1916

This is the Place de la Bastille in Paris, about 100 years ago. And this is what it looked like 90 years later: The postcard shows the building that stood before the Opera Bastille was constructed. The July Column, on the other hand, hasn’t changed much since its construction