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A 19th-Century French Vision of the Year 2000 (With Photos) [1]
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Date: 2025-06-02
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En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000, also loosely translated as France in the 21st Century) is a French image series depicting scientific advances imagined as achieved by the year 2000. At least 87 were produced, by artists including Jean-Marc Côté. They were printed in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, first on paper as cigar box inserts, and later as picture postcards, but never distributed. The only known set of the postcards was acquired by writer Isaac Asimov, who featured them in his nonfiction work Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000 — From Wikipedia: En L'An 2000.
How are you doing today? What is for dinner? What is on your mind? All topics of conversation are welcome. If you are new to Street Prophets please introduce yourself in the comments below. And jump the fold to see a sample of the pictures. To view more of them click on this link.
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En L'An 2000 At School Electric Scrubbing A Well Trained Orchestra Madame at Her Toilette The Rural Postman The New Fangled Barber Aviation Police
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