This collection of postcards provides a window into a world now lost forever: Paris in its golden age. Leonard Pitt’s selection offers a stimulating view of an era in which both Paris and the ‘carte postale’ were in vogue. Pitt’s choice of medium introduces the reader to a rich and alive social world, in which, during the early years of the twentieth century, over one million postcards were produced and exchanged a day.

Exchanges range from the passing romances of Parisian street-vendors through to the lovesick expat writing to his sweetheart back home: revel and be transported by this exciting mix of landmark and anecdote, the glorious and elegant commingling with the quaint and nostalgic.

• Postcards combine the historical and the personal, telling touchingly human stories.
• Of particular interest to art collectors and enthusiasts.
• The French Belle Epoque is always a popular era.
• Very favourable reviews from metropolitan French press, including praise from Le Figaro: "Leonard is completely legitimate, he's impregnated with Paris. He sees things that we don't see".