Sunlight floods the baroque splendor of the Casino de Monte-Carlo — Charles Garnier's 1878 masterpiece — in this superb real-photo postcard by the celebrated Riviera photographic firm Giletta frères of Nice, mailed from Monaco in 1906 to a young woman named Hattie at 86 Tenth Street, Buffalo, New York. The foreground parterre garden is a tour de force of French formal horticulture: scrolling arabesques and heart motifs picked out in clipped low hedges and bedding plants, with palm fronds framing the composition on either side. A handful of elegantly dressed figures lounge on the Casino steps — the idle rich of the Belle Époque, for whom Monte Carlo was the obligatory winter station. The sender, signing only as Gracie, kept it simple: "This is a Beautiful place. regards to all." The Monaco postmark and the card's journey across the Atlantic make it a vivid artifact of Edwardian-era grand tourism.