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
Folies Bergère Backstage, 1952
Fireworks, 1989
Le Moulin Rouge, 1923
Visitors in Sainte-Chapelle, May 1968
Invalid soldier stands beside a cannon in Paris, 1923
Parisians walk on the street, 1935
Regular at Le Louis IX in Paris, “Caramel” keeps a client company, May 1988