Debout Les Morts!Apr 19, 2025

The first of two posts on Traces of La #GrandeGuerre in the Cemeteries of Paris.
I hope you'll like the connections between the individual graves and memorials in 3 Paris cemeteries and the unique character of the French response to the scale of loss in the war #FWWhist #1GM #FWW #WW1 #history

http://vingtfrong.home.blog/2025/04/19/traces-of-la-grande-guerre-in-the-cemeteries-of-paris-1-introduction/

Traces of La Grande Guerre in the Cemeteries of Paris: (1) Introduction

Or, how to give up romantic notions of Paris and move the focus to Death and Loss … In September 2024, I had the opportunity for a stay of almost a week in Paris and, without the need to cons…

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Sent to me by someone on the dark side.
« UNC » suggests the Union Nationale des Combattants. Founded 11 Nov 1918 the UNC became the largest right-wing veterans’ association in France, (900,000 members by 1939) and a founding member of the Fédération interallié des anciens combattants. #fwwhist
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3/3 This work by Forain is entitled ‘Poilu and Tommy Conversing’.
It goes to show that someone (presumably at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where it’s now part of the collection) didn’t know their Casque Adrian and manteau Modèle 1915. #fwwhist

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Debout Les Morts!Jan 16, 2024
Memorial at the Col du Bonhomme commemorating an event on 8 September 1914. The names are all French army officers headed by le général Marie Désiré Pierre Bataille, 69-year-old commander of 41e Division d’Infanterie. Bataille & 6 of his staff were all killed by a German artillery shell #fwwhist #1gm #WW1 #FWW