LUX4784796: France, Centre, Loir-et-Cher (41), Saint Aignan (Saint-Aignan): April 1900, the city, a lively street, rue Rouget de l'Isle lined with half-timbered houses with passers-by in caps and women in headdresses - trade: central grocery store / Bridgeman Images

LUX4784851: France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Nord (59), Dunkirk: Peugeot car from a cineaste: Gaumont, 1935 - registration: 6456-U4 peugeot - cine-propaganda Gaumont / Bridgeman Images

LUX4784926: France, Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine (35), Saint-Lunaire (Saint Lunaire): August 1903, preparation for the return with wicker luggage and souvenirs, the end of the holidays, 1903 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4784962: France, Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine (35), Saint Lunaire (Saint-Lunaire): August 1903, tourists take the tea on the rocks of the cave of swallows / Bridgeman Images

LUX4784995: France, Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine (35), Saint-Lunaire (Saint Lunaire): August 1903, a holidaymaker, Mr. Henry, in a hammock on the beach, 1903 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785019: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: August 15, 1925, procession of August 15 to La Chaume with young Vendeennes in local clothes and headdress, 1925 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785054: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: 3 tuna boats fishing tuna off the beach of Sables, 1925 - boats: LS 675 - LS 754 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785105: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: la Chaume, view of the rocky coastline at the bottom with view of Calvary, Fort Saint-Nicolas and the jetee, 1925 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785176: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: la Thaume, fishing of a female shark, extraction of small sharks, 1925 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785886: France, Brittany, Morbihan (56), Vannes: old quarter, Porte Saint-Vincent, lively view with passers-by and shops, 1917 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785931: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: view of the harbour with fishing boats, in the back of the church, 1933 - boats: LS 1202 - LS 1142 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786024: Algeria: weaving workshop, three girls work on a loom, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786041: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: the channel seen from the port with Tour d'Arundel, the 2 jetees and the fishing boats (tuna boats), 1925 - boats: EE.HALLES - l'enfant jesus - macicienne - LS 777 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786059: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: ceremony in the church of Les Sables d'Olonne, of soldiers, gendarmes, veterans and with a pennant: rescue at sea preceded by a municipal band, 1935 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786091: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: embankment with tourists, 1935 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786157: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: town by the sea with a small beach, 1925 - commerce: hotel des roches Noires / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786167: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: children play and walk a donkey, 1935 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786265: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: sale of fish in the halls, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786285: rue Favart, advertising poster “Monsavon au lait” by Agence Francaise de Propagande, Paris 1938 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

LUX4786406: France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire (37), Crissay sur Manse (Crissay-sur-Manse): a young woman and her daughter pose in Sunday dress in the garden, 1880 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4787625: Algeria, WI, Tebessa: Roman ruins, 1900 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4787640: France, Rhone-Alpes, Isere (38), Grenoble: monument des vizilles, 1898 - commerce: fenocle Photography / Bridgeman Images

LUX4787647: France, Rhone-Alpes, Isere (38), Grenoble: porte de l'île verte, 1898 Photography / Bridgeman Images

LUX4787766: France, Rhone-Alpes, Haute-Savoie (74), Saint-Gervais-les-Bains: September 1908, Mont-Joly seen from the hamlet of Tresse, 1908 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4787969: France, Rhone-Alpes, Isere (38), Saint-Hilaire du Touvet: view of the valley from Saint-Hillaire du Touvet, 1935 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4788130: France, Rhone-Alpes, Haute-Savoie (74): Montenvers, the sea of ice, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4788140: France, Rhone-Alpes, Haute-Savoie (74): Montenvers, the sea of ice, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4788177: France, Auvergne, Puy-de-Dome (63), La Bourboule: the casino with hippomobile cars, 1890 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4787390: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Talmont-Saint-Hilaire: a family of vacationers goes fishing with shellfish in low maree, 1900 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4787475: Romania, Moldova, JU, Valeni: oil field, Valeni region, a group of villagers in traditional clothing, 1901 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4787548: Romania, Walachia, JU, Ploiesti: oil field, close-up of a drill with a stake, ropes, blows, horse, oil workers and technicians, 1903 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785508: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: a corner of the harbour with fishing boats at the dock. Sailors dry their nets on boats by hanging them on the mats, 1918 - boat: LS 81 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785510: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: big waves on the coast, 1918 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785529: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: view of the rocks from La Chaume, 1918 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785542: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: the channel with a boat returning to the port and above it, passes an airship, 1918 - airship: AT4 / Bridgeman Images

LUX4785621: France, Pays de la Loire, Vendee (85), Les Sables-d'Olonnes: 2 fishing boats leave the port, 1918 - boat: LS 174 / Bridgeman Images