English heavy artillery in action. War of 1914-1915.   Another one of those postcards depicting World War One, with the usual “inaccurate” dates as people obviously didn’t know when

    The title says something along the lines of “Oléron Island – Coming upon an undressing on the sea shore“. I find this postcard quite interesting. First even if

    This postcard is one of the most fascinating I have of World War One. It’s fascinating on many levels. First, it may seem surprising to see such an

    The Monuments des Girondins. One of Bordeaux‘s most famous monuments. This is what it looked like about a Century ago (the stamp is not easily legible, but it

      Honestly, I find this Christmas card pretty unusual. Unless, this was not unusual a century ago, and the Christmas card visual codes have change a lot since.

    One of the things that fascinate me with those old postcards is the way people used to look a century or so ago. Did they really look this

  Ussat-les-Bains (Ariège) Ariège river valley at the Ornolac Bridge   While I’ve never visited the village, I passed through it many times in my childhood and more recently to

    Another one of those colored postcards (basically a black and white picture that was colored afterwards) depicting a French soldier circa 1914. It shows their infamous blue and

    In case you missed the first post about the old postcards I publish on this blog, here is a small refresher: Most if not all of this postcards

    The Châtel Gate in Verdun is the oldest gate of the town (it dates from the 13th Century) and while this picture dates from before World War One,

  A short while ago I posted a scan of an old postcard from Bône (Annaba) in Algeria back when it was still a French colony. Here is another one:

    I know, it can seem a bit controversial to post a picture of Algeria on a blog expressively dedicated about France, especially a picture from back when Algeria

    Another of those old postcards from the correspondence between my grandfather and this young woman his family hosted during World War One and with whom he must have

    Another picture of Marcelin, my grandfather’s cousin. He’s the only one of the people who corresponded with my grandfather that I have two pictures of (or that I’m