Paris, France

Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

Parisians walk past lottery and vermouth advertisements on the City of Light s Boulevard des Italiens in 1936. The poster for the national lottery says, "Try Your Luck."

Photographer Maynard Owen Williams had many adventures as National Geographic s first foreign correspondent, including reporting on the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923.

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