Each time you open an old postcard box, memories flow through your mind taking you to different times and places. The displayed postcards at the ongoing exhibition "Femmes Ottomanes et Dames Turques" (Ottoman Women and Turkish Ladies) at the Lycee Notre Dame de Sion bears witness not to an ordinary biographical account, but the intriguing lives of women from the Balkans, Anatolia, the Caucasus and Middle East between the late 19th and early 20th century.
The walls of the small exhibition room are filled with over 200 postcards, saying either "Dame Turque" (Turkish Lady) or "Salut de Constantinople" (Greetings from Constantinople). Most of the postcards are from the archive of French photograph collector Pierre de Gigord, and those dated between 1880 and 1930 were sent either by French soldiers deployed to the east or French travelers touring around the Ottoman Empire.
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