These wonderful photos, taken by LIFE photographer William Vandivert, will transport you to beautiful pre-war Paris.
In July 1939, Paris was just as it should be during the height of summer; the avenues inviting you to get lost in them and the night seeming as if it may never come. Eleven months later, more than 2 million Parisians had fled the city, a large swastika hung from the Arc de Triomphe and Hitler himself took a tour of the city...
