What are we to make of a confession that dares not speak?

Today's postcard from Memories from a New Century is interesting because the caption is bilingual, which was quite unusual for that time. I assume it was published during or right after the war when there were still quite a few Anglophone troops in the area writing home. 💡The

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

This is a French sailor from the 1920s. Yes, this picture is about 100 years old. He's probably my grandfather's cousin, though I could never quite place him in the family tree. There's a story behind this postcard. You can read it here if