Pre-linen black-and-white postcard of the Salle du Trente-Quarante (Thirty-and-Forty room) at the Monte-Carlo Casino, Monaco. The opulent gaming room is shown empty of players, revealing its full Belle Époque grandeur: a large oval trente-et-quarante gaming table surrounded by gilt chairs, enormous landscape murals in carved frames rising to an elaborate gilded cornice, and crystal chandeliers suspended from the ceiling on decorative chains.

• Caption: Monte-Carlo — Salle du Trente-Quarante
• Card no.: 706; Collection Artistique
• Publisher: Édition Giletta, phot., Nice
• Postmark: Rocquebrunne, c.1910
• Status: Posted
• Notable stamp: Scott 162 — France 10c Semeuse (Sower), red