Flags snap in an imagined breeze above the ornate Palais des Forêts — the Forestry Palace — as captured in this rare real-photo-style halftone postcard from the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, one of the grandest world's fairs ever staged, drawing over 50 million visitors to the banks of the Seine. The building's elaborate façade mixes Neo-Renaissance arches with Beaux-Arts pavilion towers, a crescent-shaped reflecting pool stretching across the foreground and lending the composition an almost dreamlike stillness. The Palais des Forêts showcased France's colonial timber resources and was among the temporary exhibition halls demolished after the fair closed; this card is therefore a primary document of a structure that no longer exists. Card number 132 places it within a large serialized souvenir series sold at the fair and in Parisian shops in the months that followed.