The Oldest Known Photos of Paris / HD Colorized 

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Ce magnifique voyage dans le passé de la vie parisienne me rend profondément nostalgique et me donne envie de pleurer à la vue de tous ces braves gens qui nous fixent d'un regard bienveillant et parfois curieux, mais qui ne sont plus de ce monde. 😔

No litter anywhere, the ladies and gents wore hats, no badly behaved children, what a pleasure to live in that age if one was well off.

Thank you for Posting these wonderful photos. The French have a beautiful culture that influence us all. Would be interesting to see our current22 century fashion next to these French people and fashions.

Beautiful Paris old pictures thank you 👍❤️

Thanks for sharing!!! When I see old photos like these, as I view them, I try to feel like I am right there. I try to envision the sights and sounds. I am a history fanatic and could look at images like these all day!!! Loved it! 😊

Paris is eternal. Always worth visiting

Paris doesn't look like that now with all their new inhabitants .

Dear Bright Style, The shots of high bourgeois Parisian women's fashion from 1900 to 1905 are incredibly fascinating. Especially the fashionable figure at 4:00, the studio model at 5:51, the Hippodrome Auteuil at 6:18, the Great Exhibition at 6:47, and 10:37 in Bois de Boulogne. Thanks for this! Love andrea

When Paris was civilized, romantic and French...and worth visiting..

Superb! The colour tints are magnificent. Watching these images from the 19th and 20th centuries is magical and enchanting. Thank you. Xxx❤❤❤❤

My grandmother and GF are probably in some of these photos. Wonderful.

Merci pour ce bon retour au temps passé et de nous faire partager un peu de nostalgie 😊

Now that Paris has become unbearable to live in, the cheapest square meter of real estate costs twice as much as a good monthly salary: Close to 10,000 €. No progress in sight. Except towards a Lagos or Johannesburg atmosphere.

I truly enjoyed these photo's! Sometimes I feel I would have loved to have lived in those days! Thank you for sharing!

Some lovely photos much still recognisable today. The Paris cafe scene hasn't changed much. The biggest difference is the automobile replacing the horse. I still enjoy visiting Paris and walking the streets, particularly along the Seine and around Monmartre.

To me it seems impressive how much indeed has been preserved in Paris instead of renewed. As one little but striking example see the pond in the Jardin du Luxembourg where you still find those same little sailboats as there have been more than a hundred years ago. The Parisiens exhibit an a highly developed sense for beauty and tradition.

Bright Style you keep us amazed , Thank you for sharing these lovely pics 💖💯💖

Thank you so much for a lovely and instructive travel through times long gone. I imagine my grandma who did live in Paris for a few years in the early 1900.

Beautiful.precious times gone by.

THANK S FROM FRANCE I LOVE ALL THOSE OLD PICTURES.BEAUTIFULL GREAT NICE GORGEOUS MERVEILLEUSES SEE YOU SOON A +

カラー化することにより100年以上の前の彼らが生き返ったような気がします 昨日撮ったような写真で　彼らが今でもパリの街を歩いているような　錯覚をします

Born in Paris in 1967. Most of the places depicted in those pictures didn't change at all. In fact the architecture of Paris was very well preserved despite the efforts of terrible mayors lately to "modernize" the city of lights. Of course the Gare Montparnasse was demolished and replaced by the eponymous tower but it's the exception, not the rule. The garden of Luxembourg is pretty much the same, even the chairs and the kiosks remain. The horses are long gone and the fashion is different, but most streets are recognizable. The Bon Marché is still there. The Pont Alexandre III was restored lately. Children still play with model sails boats in the Luxembourg garden. The main changes are the cars and more recently there are entire areas where migrants live in tents.

When I see thes eold images, I find myself feeling ever so grateful for the automobile. The horses look so depressed.

Thank you so much for sharing, you really do a great job! photos are stunning 🤩

Merci . Grace à vous j'ai vu mon arrière grand-mère Marie Dupont . Et cette photo de l'exposition universel une merveille !

très émouvant ! la nostalgie me submerge...

Merci pour ce partage. La colorisation rend les photos plus vivantes, c'est du beau travail. Une manière de faire revivre ce Paris qui a aujourd'hui presque complètement disparu. 12:10 Palais du Luxembourg

This lovely video made my day! Thank you for the sweet nostalgia!🙏🏻♥️

Hermosas fotos

Quand les français étaient fiers d'être français....

LA BELLE EPOQUE :) UN REVE .. AUJOURD HUI ON PEUT DIRE PAUVRE FRANCE , QU EST ELLE DEVENUE , IL Y A QUOI PLEURER :'(

Époustouflant ❤ merci beaucoup

Great job, thanks! With all the black and white photos of that great iconic era, we have a tendency to erroneously think there was no color! As a former retired NYC fashion illustrator who worked only in color, this was of great interest to me, having studied the history of fashion in fashion art school in Manhattan! It was also the era of my late beloved grandmothers, my late beloved mother born in 1908! The photo of the woman in white surrounded by little girls looked like a scene from the Academy award winning film, "Gigi" filmed in beautiful Paris which took place during the Belle Epoch era, the turn of the last century from the late 1800s, the Victorian era and then the early 1900s, the Edwardian era! Have always loved those straw boater hats worn by men into the 1930s! French fashion designer Coco Chanel who originally designed hats also wore a smaller version of them and introduced the horizontal blue and white mariner's jerseys for women in the early 1900s, making fashion way more comfortable for women. She was revolutionary!♥♥

This is the first time I have seen a good colorization. Mostly they look as though someone and splashed the print with burnt umber poster paint. Well done.

Wonderful pictures 👍

Merci !tres belle photos, Paris était tres beau !!aujourd'hui c'est horrible est invivable car trop d'étrangers et trop de violences . Par contre trop de pub pendant la vidéo et la musique jazz moderne ne va pas du tout !de plus je déteste le jazz !!

Great photos!

Nobody sitting an outdoor cafe on their cellphones. Everyone well dressed. Those days are gone forever.

Thanks for sharing this amazing video ❤

J'aimes bien ces photos colorisées 🙂

Благодарю за экскурс по Парижу.

très sympathique le retour sur un paris colorisée. Cela serais drôle de faire les mêmes photos aujourd'hui...pas sure de retrouver le même charme...

The Bright Style videos are always a Highlight for me. I appreciate your effort very much.

Exelent!!

Today's Paris is more like a Middle East ghetto....It's really a shame what has become of Paris.

Formidable !! Merci !

These photographs look great, thank you.

Muchas gracias!! ❤

That was, as usual, Awesome. Some of the work which is put into these photographs is significant and meticulously detailed. One can only wonder at modern achievements, yet ironically the content is of equal gravity, with people indulging in the most advanced technology such as electric cars elaborate finery to wear. 👏👌👍

Absolutely fascinating. Very well done.❤

My great father was an able worker in the Brouhot factory in Vierzon, in the center of France. They stopped making cars before WW2 and then made harvesters; they were huge red wooden framed machines that could be seen allover the french countryside. But in the 50's american harvesters killed that industry. Vierzon had been a stronghold of communism for a long time and that did not attract investers ever after. I have visited quite a few car museums in France but I don't remember having seen one of those models.

Excellent ! Really enjoyable! Thanks a lot

Un grand merci ! Des images vraiment magnifiques !

Ça me donne envie de pleurer quand je vois ce que ces lieux sont devenus. Bon Paris apparaît ici beaucoup plus propre et avec des couleurs plus claires qu’il n’etait sans doute. Avez vous remarqué? C’était avant que le voile ne remplace les voilettes ❤ Et la place de la République qui était un grand lieu de Paris avant LFI Merci de ce moment de rêve. Have a great day )

Before it was invaded

Beauiful! Thanks!

同じ場所の現在の写真が見たいな。

Merci et belles musiques

This was amazing thank you

Wonderful photos. Truly enjoyed watching!

Intéressant. MERCI.

I've really enjoyed your video. Thank you for posting it.

Beautiful pictures 👍🏻

This is when people were more civilized!!!!!!

I want to go back in time and marry Marguerite Blanchet ❤.

So nice with no cars.

Os mais ricos dos países iam viajar para Paris era o centro da moda do mundo

prachtige foto’s 👌👍 ik heb er van genoten

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Superb!

Love the pictures. Even though there were great advances made since then, and back then millions were sick and hungry, the people living in those times were generally happier than today even with a easier and more plentiful lifestyle we enjoy. We really have not come as far as we should have. War crime hate division overt squalid sexuality morals even aimed at children, no, we are quickly moving backwards not forward. The world is on fire, Rome is burning. We have learned nothing.

Minute 03:14. even the little child is already dead. The person may rest in peace.... so nice old pics.

Une belle époque où la France ne bénéficiait pas encore de "l'enrichissement culturel".

Lovely presentation!❤

Wonderful 👍👏👏

I loved It! Congratulations for vídeo!!

Bravo pour votre travail sur ces images. Plus que des photos, ce sont de véritables témoignages, des instantanés éternels d'une vie révolue. Toutes ces personnes insouciantes ne savent pas qu'elles seront prises, quelques années plus tard, dans un cataclysme effroyable qui bouleversera l'Europe, fera des millions de morts et détruira la vie de dizaines de millions de familles... Ces photos montrent une époque où Paris était encore une ville populaire et je pense que si un Parisien de ce temps-là voyait Paris aujourd'hui, il aurait surtout honte de ce que cette ville est devenue, une cité du tiers-monde où les rats prospèrent en toute tranquillité. Cent fois merci pour cette si touchante vidéo. PS) Petit point : la musique aurait pu être plus appropriée à ce diaporama si elle avait, par exemple, celle d'Eric Satie.

Bravo pour ce magnifique et intéressant travail. Il me semble toutefois y avoir une incohérence de date dans la photo de l'arc de triomphe du Carousel. En 1869, le palais des Tuileries existait encore, on ne pouvait donc pas voir la perspective du jardin et des Champs Elysées. Le palais a été incendié en 1871 pendant la Commune et les ruines démolies en 1882. La photo est forcément postérieure.

c'était LA France comme on l'aime

Amazingly beautiful! Marie Dupont's frame 1:12 was another proof of the existence of GOD. Outstanding...

these photos remind us that we too are going to die..

Merci!

Life seemed less stressful and so much nicer back then. I think the photo@12.20 of the lady in Pigalle is much later than 1881.

magnifiques photos

Parts of Paris are still French. Paris fought hard against the great waves of tourists and new comers for a LONG time. I believe that people of Paris are still quietly fighting to keep Paris beautiful just like the Resistance during the World War II.

Great restorative work, though the first original image surely was not that blurry? And the music should French from the period like Camille Saint-Saens! ?

ah ces moustaches, j'adore !

Super!❤😂🎉

Fotos incriveis

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Super...je connais Paris aujourd'hui mais ça semble un peu terni...

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Beautiful

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Thank you very much, but you should have used old french songs... 🎼😎

It was the best of times (pre EU ECHR) It was the worst of times (post EU ECHR), as Charles Dickens may have described it

Interesting. But the earliest known photos would be from the 1840s and 1850s. These are all later than that. By the late 1800s photography was common and widespread! And some of these are from the early 1900s.

je préférais Paris ainsi. Magnifique . 👏 👏

Jazz in Paris... Hmmmm...