20 unique photos of what life was like in Paris a hundred years ago

Paris has always been a dream with streets filled with beautiful architecture, tourists and lovers. One hundred years ago, everything was simpler: in the summer, bathed right in the Seine, gas lanterns were burning on the streets, you could buy fresh vegetables at the metro entrance. But lovers were everywhere: they walked along the beautiful streets and parks, sat hugging on benches and watched the life of the city. The main symbol of Paris, as now, was loved by townspeople and tourists: as today, a hundred years ago people gathered on the terraces of the Eiffel Tower to admire the French capital from above. We found rare photographs of this beautiful city that will help you travel back in time and show what Paris was like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

On the Arc de Triomphe, 1900

Citizens and tourists with spyglasses on the Eiffel Tower, late 1880s.

A trading bench with vegetables right next to the subway, the 1950s.

Bathing season, 1935

Gas lantern on a street, mid 1940

Ferris Wheel, which was installed for the 1900 World's Fair

One day in the life of the staff of the Louvre

View from the main symbol of France, the creation of the Eiffel

Balloon over Carruzel Square, 1878

Incredibly snowy winter of 1946

Ball on the Montmartre hill, the beginning of the last century

The accident in 1895: the train crashed into the station at full speed and made a hole in its facade

The harsh winter of 1893 and the Seine covered in ice

A man dives into the Seine from the city bridge, 1944

Busy traffic on modern Avenue Foch at the beginning of the twentieth century (then Avenue du Bois de Boulogne)

Worker inspects the Eiffel Tower

Beloved Ones, 1945

Parisian fashionista at a flower shop, the first decade of the twentieth century

A couple looking at passing cars, 1952

The flood of 1910, when the Seine spilled so much that flooded the main streets, and the Parisians sailed on boats

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