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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called What's that picture?, and we'd love to have this and any other mystery images added to the group!

Cours Saleya, Nice?

I'd say isematics is on to something. The main thing I see the the third floor has been converted(?) from a flat facade to a cover walk way. This a pretty big change for an old building. But I'd say isemantics has got it. Peace Chandler

It is the "Palais de la Préfecture", formerly "Palais du Gouverneur" or "Palais des rois sardes", cours Saleya in Nice (FR), before the last architectural intervention in 1905. See: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_de_la_Pr%c3%a9fecture_des_Al... and commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saleya6.JPG where you can find a lot of common details.

The pair of statues on either side of the arch, and the fact that the square is still used for a market lead me to support the identification by isemantics and cercamon. The fact that this is labeled 1167 and that 1166 [ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/4210442909/ ] has been identified as in Nice is more supporting evidence.

This is the Old Port ("Vieux-Port") of Marseille in France. The church is the Église des Augustins.

ha, just wanted to say the same thing!

Marseille (s) définitivement

Thanks for the fast identification!! Title updated.

C'est dans cette église que les marseillais qui avait fait "Pâques avant les Rameaux" avaient pris l'habitude de se marier, sans doute parce que le curé devait être plus libre d'esprit que dans les autres églises de la ville....

In the hi-res version of this picture available on the Library of Congress site, you can see a street sign that says "Place Masséna." The Place Masséna is one of the landmarks of the city of Nice in France. The buildings in this and many other photos of the Place Masséna closely resemble those in the photo here.

Place Massena indeed. Yet another quality old photo of Nice. Excellent!

I was at this intersection just today, watching the Christmas festivities in Nice. This is a view down Avenue de Verdun, and to the right is Place Massena (and further north, Avenue Jean Medecin). If you follow Avenue de Verdun in present day, it will bear left and end on the Promenade des Anglais.

Place Masséna in Nice:

Thanks a lot! You've quickly pinned down another view that wasn't listed in the 1905 "Detroit Publishing Company" sales catalog. Usually, we could rely on that book to figure out a location as long as there was an identification number like "1167."