Bathed in the soft hand-tinted hues of Edwardian color lithography, this charming view of the Église Saint-Martial in Angoulême, France — its slender neo-Gothic spire piercing a pale sky — was sent on 29 November 1910 by a young Frenchman named Henri to a postcard-swapping enthusiast in Boston named Weston. Henri, writing from Madame Loureix's house at 6 rue Fontaine-de-Chaudé, Angoulême, explains with endearing formality that a mutual friend told him Weston wished to exchange postcards, and he obliges with this local view — requesting in return colorful American cards depicting city views, landscapes, or inhabitants, and reminding Weston to place the stamp face-up, as was the custom for collectors. It is a perfect time-capsule of the golden age of deltiology, when pen pals across the Atlantic traded paper windows onto each other's worlds. The card is published under the Aqua Photo (Paris) imprint and printed in the warm palette typical of the period.