From a bird's-eye vantage above the Île de la Cité, this richly hand-tinted real-photo-based card captures the soaring Gothic splendor of La Sainte-Chapelle — its enormous 15th-century rose window blazing with greens, golds, and deep crimson at the card's heart, the needle spire piercing a pale Parisian sky while tiny Haussmanian rooflines press in on all sides. Built by King Louis IX in 1248 to house the Crown of Thorns, Sainte-Chapelle is considered the pinnacle of Rayonnant Gothic architecture; this postcard, mailed from Paris on 15 June 1928, carries the exuberant voice of a traveler — signed only as "May" — writing to a "Farris-Luise" at 2305 Sedgwick Avenue, New York City, NY, USA, gushing that "the Queen of Sheba can say 'The half has not been told me'" and cheerfully noting some rain but enough good weather to get around. The 90-centime Marcellin Berthelot commemorative stamp (Postes République Française) ties the card precisely to 1927–1928 French postal issues, and the PARIS 47 machine cancel with wavy lines dates the dispatch to June 15, 1928.