These are what everyday life in France looked like in the early 1930s.
“Le Monocle” – Special lesbians cabaret in Montmartre. Paris, 1930. Photo by Albert Harlingue. |
Swimming lessons, 1930. Photo by François Kollar |
The brooms seller in Montmartre, Paris, 1933. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson. |
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, ca. 1930. Photo by André Kertész. |
Greta Garbo Poster by Ilse Bing, Paris 1932. |
American boxer Jack Johnson and his second wife, Irene Pineau in Paris, 1930. |
The flying car, France, 1930. |
Frontier mine potash in Alsace in Mulhouse: the photo shows the room of ultraviolet rays for children. 1935. |
Place de la Nation, Paris, 1930. |
Cheese seller with his goats, Paris, 1930. |
Hawker muget, Parvis of Notre-Dame, Nice, May 1, 1936. Photo by Paul Louis. |
Hawker muget, Parvis of Notre-Dame, Nice, May 1, 1936. Photo by Paul Louis. |
The flower seller in Paris, 1932. Photo by André Kertész. |
City de Refuge designed by Le Corbusier, Paris, 1933. |
The Man in the Boater, 1932. Photo by Brassaï. |
Pablo Picasso and Tériade in front of the sculpture studio at his home in Boisgeloup, 1932. Photo by Brassaï. |
Evening at the Monocle, ca. 1932. Photo by Brassaï. |
A Morris column in the fog, Avenue de l’Observatoire, Paris, 1934. Photo by Brassaï . |
Horticultural Exposition in Cours la Reine, Paris, 1932. |
Employees, Toulouse, 1930. Photo by J. Saludas. |
Renée au Palm Beach, Cannes, 1931. Photo by Jacques Henri Lartigue. |
Paris, ca. 1930. Photo by J-E Auclair. |
Edith Piaf in a Parisian cafe, ca. 1936. Photo by Jean-Gabriel Séruzier. |
Bistro, Paris, 1930. Photo by André Kertész. |
Snowman in the Buttes Chaumont, February 22, 1933. |
Bathing suit, Trouville, ca. 1930. |
Kitchen, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, ca. 1930. |
Apprentices are having fun with the snow in the Buttes Chaumont, February 21, 1933. |
Paris in the morning, 1935. Photo by Fred Stein. |
The Lido, Paris, ca. 1930. Photo by B. M. Bernand. |