In July 1916, the 1st corps of the colonial army is deployed and seizes an observation post from the Germans on the front at the Somme. The general has come to take stock of the cannons taken from the...
During the war, from 1914 to 1918, a cable-operated funicular railway built by the company Etcheverry is loaded with boxes of ammunition and tested in the open countryside at ground level and over wat...
In Vincennes, the members of the Studies and Technical Experiments section of the Invention Department attend the test destruction of barbed-wire networks by a Latil tractor. In a meadow on the outski...
An account of the Battle of Verdun through a montage of archive images, to the glory of the soldiers.
Raymond Poincaré visits Russia from July 13 to 23, 1914. Arriving in a yacht, the Tsar and Raymond Poincaré inspect the troops, greet the Empress, then attend a parade of artillery, Cossacks, and th...
On the ground, men try to control a dirigible's cables to help it land near a hangar. Once again in flight, this dirigible meets another, Astra dirigible.
In 1921, following the World War I armistice, the Allies occupy a section of German territory in order to obtain war reparations. The French troops are situated in the Rhenish territory, whose first F...
In 1918, during World War I, the Printemps department store advertises the summer sales. Parisians take a look at the displays, which are lavish, and pass by a few soldiers. A man sprays the pavement ...