carte-postale

la carte-postale (FR N-F) (1872) postcard, stiff card, one side of which is used for correspondance and the destination address and stamp, the other side traditionally has a photographic view of a certain place or landscape. The ancestor of the postcard was a certain type of envelope that had a picture on the outside. The first postal card originated in Hungary in 1869. With the rise of tourism and advertisement, people wished either to commemorate a visit somewhere, or to spread to a wider…