From high on the Col du Chat at 638 metres, the shimmering expanse of Lac du Bourget stretches toward Aix-les-Bains huddled at the foot of the brooding Mont Revard — a panorama that the Belle Époque's fashionable spa-goers, who flooded to Aix for its thermal baths and casino, would have sent home to envious friends as evidence of Savoie's magnificent scenery. The black-and-white tonal quality and the divided-back format place this card firmly in the earliest years of the twentieth century, published by E. Reynaud of Chambéry under the Collection "La Plus Belle" imprint — a regional Savoie publisher whose cards are genuinely scarce today. Aix-les-Bains had been a fashionable resort since the mid-19th century, beloved by Queen Victoria, and this elevated view captures the grandeur that drew Europe's aristocracy and bourgeoisie to its shores.