France at the beginning of the 20th century (1906-1910)

Panorama of a rally on a city square.

Members of the commission to study living conditions of workers walk along the street in one of the working-class districts.

Shacks in one of the slums, dirt on the street.

A woman takes dried clothes from a clothesline near a shack.

Members of the commission on the street of one of the working-class suburbs.

A dog picks up scraps of food from the pavement.

Children play in the street.

Women dig the earth.

Members of the commission come out of the gate of one of the courtyards.

A funeral hearse moves along the pavement, followed by the widow and children of the deceased.

The hearse turns off the street.

Members of the commission near a surface metro line.

Hungerers gather at a free soup distribution point.

The unemployed eat free soup.

A line for free soup on a Paris street, a policeman keeps order.

People eat soup.

One of the political figures gives an interview.

A workers' demonstration on the streets of Paris.

The interior of one of the workshops of an industrial enterprise (panorama, from above).

Production processes at industrial enterprises in France. extinguishing a fire in warehouses near the railway.

Demonstration on one of the streets of Paris.

A French soldier on duty at the station during a strike.

Cordoning off the railway tracks.

Views of a demonstration of striking French workers.

Representatives of socialist parties with a funeral wreath at the funeral of one of the political figures.

The Ferris wheel in Paris.

View of a windmill.

Police chasing criminals, comic situations (fragments of silent films).

View of one of the streets of old Paris, a man with a bicycle walking along the sidewalk.

A figurine of French President Fallières, made for a cake.

Fallières, standing in a car, responds to greetings from people on the street, taking off his hat.

Fallières and his entourage descend the steps.

Fallières gets into a carriage next to a foreign guest.

Carnival procession in Paris.

Cars on one of the city streets.

A bicycle-powered aerostat in the air, the aeronaut is pedaling.

Transportation of large metal structures and a locomotive using heavy draft horses.

Lifting a container with a horse using a crane.

Workers waiting for a train with soil to stop, the train stops, unloading soil from platforms with shovels.

Production processes at French industrial enterprises.

Women load slag into hand-cartloads, take the wheelbarrows away.

Photographs of female and child labor at French enterprises.

Photograph of striking miners.

Photo portraits of Jean Jaurès, Jules Guesde, J. Clemenceau.

Photograph of participants in the holiday of the newspaper "L'Humanite".

Group photograph of figures of the Communist Party of France of the early 20th century.

Parade of French troops.