Crowds in Edwardian finery — the women in sweeping skirts and feathered hats, the men in frock coats and boaters — promenade along the basin of Neptune at Versailles as great jets of water arc skyward in this extraordinarily vivid early hand-colored postcard, one of the earliest wave of mass-produced French tourist cards. The Bassin de Neptune, the largest fountain at Versailles, was restored and activated for grand public occasions under the Third Republic, and this image — teeming with actual visitors — offers a rare sociological snapshot of Belle Époque leisure. The card was written to "Madame" by a sender whose German Kurrent script fills every margin, overflowing across the image itself; the text mentions travelling, fine weather ("von günstigsten Wetter begleitet"), and heartfelt greetings ("meine herzlichsten Grüße"). The front caption reads "Parc de Versailles. — Le Bassin de Neptune." Dating to circa 1902 based on undivided-back format and costuming.