Sepia postcard of the most photographed view in Belgium — the town of Dinant on the Meuse, the arch bridge in the foreground, the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame with its distinctive onion dome wedged between the river and the sheer limestone cliff, the medieval Citadelle commanding everything from above. The composition is almost absurdly dramatic: the cliff rises nearly vertically from the water's edge, the church is pressed against it, the fortress perches at the summit. Dinant's history is equally compressed — the birthplace of Adolphe Sax, the scene of a German massacre of 674 civilians in August 1914, the town substantially rebuilt in the 1920s when this card was likely made. L'Edition Belge of Brussels published this as part of their Belgian topographical series.

• Caption: Dinant. — Le Pont et la Citadelle.
• Publisher: L'Edition Belge, 44, rue de l'Automne, Bruxelles
• Status: Unposted