55 Rare Color Photos Of Paris Taken 100 Years Ago

You should be able to right-click (on a PC) or control-click (Mac), then select "save image".

How terribly sad that the beautiful architecture has been destroyed. :(

Dear Scott, the bldg. on left of this pic is a cinema, charging 2 1/2 francs Matinee entry for Sundays and Public Hols.! On RHS is a Music Hall, so it seems.

This is the grand palais. A fair hall in the center of paris, right of the champs elysee when headind down to la concorde place.

It s the first airplane exhibition in 1909 in a place called le grand palais

I think it's the Paris Exhibition of 1914? Just a guess. My clue is the Michelin balloon.

Cet autochrome date de 1909 et a été pris au Grand Palais, à Paris, lors de la première Exposition Internationale de Locomotion Aerienne.

Le Grand Palais

Je pense que c'est au Grand Palais.

Paris World's Fair 1909, Grand Palais, Paris VIII

It looks like the grand palais

The Grand Palais.

Salon de la locomotion aérienne, 1909, Grand Palais, Paris.

Kind of looks like Palais Garnier (Paris Opera).

I think it might be the Grand Palais

It's been taken under the glass roof of "Le Grand Palais"

This is taken under the glass roof of "Le Grand Palais", it's beautiful and so vast, you should visit it! :-)

Le Grand Palais near the Champs-Elysées in Paris

Le Grand Palais, near the Champs-Elysées in Paris.

It's in the Grand Palais main hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais

Looks like Grand Palais

Looks like Grand Palais... Looks like Grand Palais

Wikipedia: "The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France"

Le grand palais (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palais)

I think it's the Grand Palais. Most probably for the Exposition Universelle at the beginning of 1900.

Gare d'Orsay ?

The beginning of flight.

Looks like a world's fair

Looks like Gare de Lion.

Wikipedia:The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France.

You probably never noticed that before because they don't exist anymore :)

it really adds a royal element to the structure, good observation!

Because Halley's Comet is black and flies below the cloud cover?

Looks like daytime and in front on the clouds

No its sticky vickys ping pong ball

No its sticky vickys pin pong ball

It would be far more weird to think they are all alive.

It really hits hard to see a photo where there's thousands of people, taken around the same time as this, and as you look at all the faces, even the babies, they've all been dead for a very long time. Things like that should rightfully make one contemplate the bigger picture and realize how many stupid things people care about, when in the end it doesn't matter anyway.

I was thinking the same thing. Even the baby.

for me , at least , they are still here & and addressable ; we talk life , smile and say "au revoir !"

for me , at least , they are still here and - in my mind - addressable , we talk life , and say "au revoir !"

Yes, but they had their lives. :)

Isn't it southeast of the Arch? There is Saint-Denis and a Port Saint-Denis no?

This is not the arch of triump it's Porte ( gate ) Saint Denis. " The Portes Saint-Denis and Saint Martin were designed by architect François Blondel and the sculptor Michel Anguier at the order of Louis XIV. Built in 1672 and paid for by the city of Paris, it replaced a medieval gate in the city walls built by Charles V in the 14th century." sans-titre...29e314.png

Today : https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.8702819,2.3529334,3a,75y,199.72h,80.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYbyCWuIUlf0gRQlH1UxHmw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Not fake, they were in motion.

Statue de la liberté? Tour Eiffel, non? ;)

Probably taken early in the morning. Photographers used very long exposures back then. They probably tried to avoid busy areas because of this.