French Archivist

Vintage illustrations, photographs and visuals from France

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Louise Bourgeois

Untitled, 2002

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The Rolling Stones on the Champs Elysées, 1964.

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Jean Seberg in Paris.

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Journalists at the press room of the Cannes Festival watch 17 year-old actress Jacqueline Sassard walking by at the end of her press conference, May 9, 1958.

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French writer Françoise Sagan in her Jaguar, 1956.

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Gordon Parks. Paul Newman and wife Joanne Woodward shopping for books in Paris, 1959.

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Vintage ad for Cognac, Réalités magazine, 1950

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Vintage ad for Scandale lingerie, Air-France magazine, 1950.

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Henri Matisse, "Le Platane", 1951

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"Sales of Gitanes cigarettes have tripled !", ad in Paris-Match, November 1955

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"It's true, I don't really live on Santa isabel plaza"

Illustration by François Batet

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Bon jour et bonne semaine ☕️ 📰

Place de la Bourse ,dans les journaux les détails du 1er essai nucléaire français, la bombe "A" dite "Gerboise bleue"🗼Paris 1960

Photo STF/AFP 13 février

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Halda Star ad, Fémina, December 1956

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Marie Curie pictured in The New York Herald, 1921.

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Director Agnès Varda playing pinball with her husband, director Jacques Demy, Paris 1962. 

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Christian Dior Spring/Summer 1952 Haute Couture Collection. Photo Roger Wood. Model Lucky (with Christian Dior).

Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1952. Photo Roger Wood. Mannequin Lucky (avec Christian Dior).

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