En L'An 2000: Mobile House 'Villa Beauséjour' Rolling Through Countryside
Remarkably prescient about mobile living — today's luxury RV industry proves this vision half-right — but hilariously wrong about scale, this chromolithograph imagines a full Victorian mansion on wheels, complete with rooftop garden, striped awnings, wraparound veranda, and a smoking chimney, piloted through the French countryside by a goggled chauffeur. Part of the iconic 'En L'An 2000' postcard series, it envisions aristocratic nomadism as the future of leisure travel, blending Belle Époque domestic comfort with horseless-carriage technology in gloriously impractical style.
This is genteel Belle Époque futurism rather than pulp — optimistic, whimsical, and bourgeois in sensibility, imagining technological progress as an extension of aristocratic leisure. It belongs to the tradition of rational utopian speculation rather than the lurid, action-driven energy of true pulp sci-fi.
“EN L'AN 2000 VILLA BEAUSÉJOUR A House Rolling Through the Countryside”
