Floodlit against a midnight Paris sky, the white travertine domes of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur blaze with theatrical brilliance in this dramatic real-photo night postcard — the "Guy" photographer's name is signed boldly in the lower right corner, a calling card of the prolific André Leconte publishing house whose "Guy" series documented post-war Paris with cinematic flair. Consecrated in 1919 after a 44-year construction spanning the turbulent years from the Commune to the armistice, the Sacré-Cœur had by 1952 become the city's second-most visited monument, its nocturnal illumination a post-war symbol of Parisian resilience. This card was sent from Paris on October 5, 1952 — the postmark reads "PARIS / 20HR / RDE L'EPEE / BOIS" — addressed to a Herr Wanser in Uttrichshausen, Kreis Schlüchtern, in the new Federal Republic of Germany, arriving in what had been, just seven years prior, enemy territory. The handwritten message, signed by someone whose name begins with what appears to be a cursive flourish, carries "Herzliche Grüsse" — warm greetings — across that still-raw geographic and emotional frontier.