Hulking and magnificent, the Roman amphitheater of Nîmes fills the frame in this sharp real-photograph postcard — its two tiers of 60 arched arcades stretching in an unbroken ellipse, stone mellowed by two thousand years of Provençal sun, a single leafless winter tree casting bare branches over the foreground pavement. One of the best-preserved Roman arenas in the world, the Nîmes amphitheater dates to roughly 70 CE and could seat 24,000 spectators; by the postwar decades when this card was produced, it had become one of France's premier tourist subjects. Published by the celebrated Éditions Rella of Nice, this unused example with deckled edges and "Photographie Véritable" designation represents the high-quality photographic postcard tradition of mid-20th-century France.