Fascinating Historical Photos Show Paris in Vivid Colors in 1923

These stunning photographs will take you back to the post-World War I Paris in 1923 in vibrant colors. Photographer Jules Gervais-Courtellemont produced these images using the autochrome technique. It was the time when Paris was at the heart of it all, not only in terms of fashion and entertainment but in the domains of decorative art and architecture.

Autochrome is an old photographic technique in which plates are covered in microscopic red, green and blue colored potato starch grains (about four million per square inch). When the photograph is taken, light passes through these color filters to the photographic emulsion

#1 A view across the Seine.

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#2 The church of Saint Germaine l’Auxerrois.

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#3 The cathedral of Notre Dame.

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#4 A pathway in the gardens of a large estate.

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#5 The Trocadero gardens and the Eiffel Tower.

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#6 The Museum of the Decorative Arts in the Tuileries.

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#7 The flower market on the Quai aux Flaers.

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#8 Twilight on the Seine.

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#9 The church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.

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#10 Paris in 1923.

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#11 Men on the Île de la Cité.

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#12 A view through trees across the Seine.

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#13 The gardens of the Senate building.

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#14 The hotel of Madame de Lamballe, a friend of Marie-Antoinette.

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#15 The Moulin Rouge nightclub at Montmarte.

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#16 A colonnade and lake in a garden.

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#17 The Moulin de la Galette, or Mill of the Cake, at Montmartre.

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#18 The street of Saint Julian the Poor in old Paris.

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#19 Men stand beside crafts for sale near the cathedral of Notre Dame.

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#20 The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées.

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#21 A worker naps next to carts of rubble.

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#22 A view down the street to the Panthéon.

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#23 A street scene outside a butcher’s shop.

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#24 The Porte Saint-Denis.

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