Postcard Auch - Basilique Sainte-Marie, cathedral Gers, Librairie Segonzac ca. 1910

Postcard with a sepia photograph of the west facade of the Basilique Sainte-Marie in Auch, the cathedral of the Gers in south-west France. The frontal view shows the two towers and three round-arched portals of the Gothic-Renaissance facade, built between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The card is published by Librairie G. Segonzac in Auch — a local bookshop that documented the town and its monuments in postcard format. The reverse is entirely unused and blank, with the standard French "Carte Postale / Correspondance / Adresse" format.

The cathedral of Auch is a monument historique and one of the most significant religious buildings in the Occitanie region. The church is also a stopping point on the Via Tolosana, one of the French pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. The interior is celebrated for its sixteenth-century choir stalls and stained glass windows by Arnaud de Moles. Locally published cards by small provincial printers and booksellers like Segonzac are often rarer than the large Parisian series — they appeared in smaller print runs and disappeared more quickly.