Antique & Vintage Postcards

A 13th-century château rises above terraced slopes in this tranquil real-photography view of Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny in the Faucigny valley of Haute-Savoie, with the snow-capped peaks of the Préalpes visible beyond the village rooftops. Figures in period dress — a woman with two children near the château wall, and two men pointing across the valley — lend an intimate human scale to this rural Alpine scene. Published by A.B. (likely Albaret or a Savoyard regional publisher), numbered 783 in their series, the card documents the village and its medieval château before the mass tourism of the mid-20th century transformed the region. Saint-Jeoire was a quiet market town on the route between Bonneville and Taninges; the Château de la Fléchère, dating from the 13th century, still stands today. A charming piece of Savoyard regional documentation.