Old photos of Paris offer real time travel. These photos, gleaned from the archives of National Geographic magazine, give us a vision of Paris in the 20th century through everyday scenes like fireworks on July 14th 1989, Folies Bergeres preparing before their show or old photographs of streets of Paris.
Young lovers embrace beside the Arc de Triomphe, 1960
THOMAS NEBBIA, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
Folies Bergère Backstage, 1952
JUSTIN LOCKE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Fireworks, 1989
JAMES L. STANFIELD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Le Moulin Rouge, 1923
JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Visitors in Sainte-Chapelle, May 1968
BRUCE DALE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Invalid soldier stands beside a cannon in Paris, 1923
JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Parisians walk on the street, 1935
MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Regular at Le Louis IX in Paris, “Caramel” keeps a client company, May 1988