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''En L'An 2000'' (''In the Year 2000'', also loosely translated as ''France in the 21st Century'') is a French image series depicting scientific advances imagined as achieved by the year 2000. At least 87 were produced, by artists including Jean-Marc Côté. They were printed in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, first on paper as cigar box inserts, and later as picture postcards, but never distributed. The only known set of the postcards was acquired by writer Isaac Asimov, who featured them in his nonfiction work ''Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000'' ( Henry Holt and Company, 1986).Review, '' Kirkus Reviews'' 54 (1986
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File:France in XXI Century. Air cup.jpg, Air cup
File:France in XXI Century. Air hunters.jpg, Air hunters
File:France in XXI Century. Air police.jpg, Air police
File:France in XXI Century. Microbes.jpg, Microbes
File:France in XXI Century. Race in Pacific.jpg, A Race in the Pacific
File:France in XXI Century. School.jpg, Future school
File:France in XXI Century. Whale bus.jpg, A Whale-bus
File:France in XXI Century. Air cab.jpg, Air cabs -
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''En L'An 2000'' (''In the Year 2000'', also loosely translated as ''France in the 21st Century'') is a French image series depicting scientific advances imagined as achieved by the year 2000. At least 87 were produced, by artists including Jean-Marc Côté. They were printed in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, first on paper as cigar box inserts, and later as picture postcards, but never distributed. The only known set of the postcards was acquired by writer Isaac Asimov, who featured them in his nonfiction work ''Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000'' ( Henry Holt and Company, 1986).Review, '' Kirkus Reviews'' 54 (19861256
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hansom cab
The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Originally called the Hansom safety ca ...
s of the (then) future, depicted in En L'An 2000 illustrated by Jean-Marc Côté
See also
*Retrofuturism
Retrofuturism (adjective ''retrofuturistic'' or ''retrofuture'') is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipatin ...
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Postcards 1899 in France Isaac Asimov France in fiction Fiction set in the 2000s Science fiction images 1899 works {{sf-stub