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France around 1900. A Portrait in Color
Critically acclaimed authors Sabine Arqué and Marc Walter curate this XXL collection of some 800 vintage photographs, postcards, posters, and photochromes. From the grand Paris World’s Fair to the honey light of the Côte d’Azur, it’s a glimpse into an era of rose-tinted optimism.
France 1900
 
France 1900
France 1900
 

Between the Franco-Prussian War and WWI, France in the 1900s was a gilded moment of peace and prosperity. Critically acclaimed authors Sabine Arqué and Marc Walter curate this XXL collection of some 800 vintage photographs, postcards, posters, and photochromes. From the grand Paris World’s Fair to the honey light of the Côte d’Azur, it’s a glimpse into an era of rose-tinted optimism.

France 1900
 
France around 1900.
A Portrait in Color

Marc Walter, Sabine Arqué
Hardcover, 11.4 x 15.6 in., 636 pages
 
US$ 200
 
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“The freshness of this ‘ideal’ France bursts out in the naive colors of these photochromes, postcards and colorized photographs, which conjure up the atmosphere of the Belle Époque.”

—  Sabine Arqué

 

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