Rows of vivid orange geraniums and clipped box hedges draw the eye down a sun-drenched promenade toward the green copper domes of the Monte Carlo Casino, its Baroque façade framed by towering palms in a view that captures the Côte d'Azur at the height of its postwar glamour — the gardens alive with the kind of effortless Mediterranean colour that brought a generation of European tourists flooding south after the austerity years. Published by the distinguished Nice firm of L. Gilletta & Cie., whose "Photographie Véritable" (real photograph) hand-coloured prints were the gold standard of Riviera souvenir cards, this larger-format scallop-edged card from the "La Côte d'Azur" series was printed when the vintage cars visible in the background were new — placing it firmly in the late 1940s to early 1950s. Clean and unused, it retains the vivid dye tones that lesser cards of the era have long since lost.