World War I

 Airmen of the Lafayette Escadrille

[The Lafayette Escadrille was composed of volunteer American

airmen before the official entry of America into the war.]

  

 All Saints. A crowd of Parisians come to lay flowers on the graves of soldiers.

  

 French Front. Frontline trench

  

 In the Somme. A French regiment reinforces the English lines

  

On the Serbian front. Serbian irregulars used to 

transport ammunition, supervised by regulars

 

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 At the farm near Juvisy, Champagne. Wounded soldiers 

cutting sorrel to be sold at the Parisian markets

  

 Celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the reign of 

the Prince of Monaco. The historical procession.

  

 Grand Prix of A.C.F. General view of the start of the motorcycle race.

   

Start of women's cross country race in the vicinity of Chaville

 

 The heat in Paris. Group of shopgirls is taking 

refreshment under the trees of the Tuileries.

 

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 Arrival in Marseille of a new Russian contingent. The men line up on the dock.

  

European war. Bombardment of Senlis by the Germans. 

General view of the neighborhood of La Licorne in Senlis.

  

In Argonne. A sentry at his front-line post.

   

On the Somme front. Resupplying troops in the trenches with convoy of donkeys.

  

The advance on Laon. Near Margival, first aid to a wounded soldier.

 

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 Field work during holidays by high school girls of 

municipal schools in Bagneux. Schoolgirls distributing manure.

  

 In the Tuileries Garden. The crowd listening to 

the concert by the British royal musicians.

  

Opening of the scrap fair in Paris, 5 April 1914

  

 Palm Sunday. Leaving Mass at the Madeleine, while German 

long range guns shell the capital. March 24, 1918

  

 The formation of French youth. Girl Scouts doing 

exercise in a forest in the Paris suburbs.

  

War orphans doing a recreational dance in a villa at Cannes

  

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 In Artois. Arrival of British reinforcements. The division halts in a village.

  

 In Marseille. Russian soldiers recover their 

weapons, which are distributed by Senegalese.

  

 Italian front. Medical dogs in the trenches of Carso.

  

 On the Champagne front. Boat loaded with men 

crossing a canal from an outpost on the other side.

  

On the Somme front. The donkeys who supply food to the men in the trenches.

 

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German prisoners carrying soup for their comrades.

  

In Champagne, sheltered behind a small pine wood, 

the officers of a regiment lunch on the grass.

  

In Champagne. The distribution of 10,000 cigars 

offered by a friend of the captain for his company.

  

In the Somme. In the trenches, the corpse 

of a German soldier killed in the shelling.

  

On the British front (Somme). Artillery

observers signaling an enemy position.

 

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These are from an archive of photos from the Universite de Caen Basse-Normandie.

27 August 1913. Meeting of Deauville. Elegant ladies near the Hydroplane

  

A German cannon in the Champs de Mars. German 280 mm gun 

and ammunition wagons captured by the English near Corbie (Somme)

  

Factory making warplanes

  

Haying in the Tuileries. Loading cut grass in carriages

  

In the Paris suburbs. The students of a girls' boarding school are clearing an uncultivated field