Tourist booklet Metz Moselle 1930s Extension Touristique Française

Small French tourist booklet for the city of Metz, published in Paris by L'Extension Touristique Française, 3 Cité Trévise. The booklet dates from the 1930s and combines a brief description of the city with advertisements from local Metz merchants and black-and-white photographs by Photo Weber. The text covers the history of Metz as an ancient Gallic settlement of the Mediomatrici, later Roman capital of Austrasia under Clovis, its rail connections, and its principal monuments, including the cathedral Saint-Étienne, the Palais de Justice and the Monument au Général Mangin.

The advertisements sketch a portrait of a city returned to France after 1918. Hôtel Royal and Hôtel Régina announce two hundred rooms with running water, Garage Moderne represents Citroën with thirty boxes and two hundred and fifty cars, R. Jager runs the Zeiss outlet, Louis Watrinet supplies cameras and cinema equipment to amateurs, and the Dancing Novelty in the rue Nexirue promises cocktails and a Sunday orchestra. The booklet closes with a table of kilometric distances from Metz to Aix-les-Bains, Reims, Strasbourg and Vichy, and an announcement of the new colour Plan de Metz and the Guide Tricolore de Metz.