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...
Manufacturing fake cannons, fake trees, fake molehills and mannequins in the Châlons-sur-Marne winter circus, transformed into a camouflage workshop. A door simulating a rock in a trench. A detailed ...
In 1917, during World War I, rationing forces Parisians to wait in line to get coal, while the winter is particularly harsh.
In Paris in 1918, refugees from the Somme exit Gare du Nord (North Station) with their luggage.
The Invention Department's aeronautic technical committee and Edmond Rothé place an electric-oscillation anemometer under an elongated tethered balloon with low cubic volume. The method uses only one...
In August 1918, during World War I, the city of Havre is a swarm of activity. The naval base of the Belgian, British, and American forces, many soldiers transit through this city. At the port, shuttle...
On August 10, 1920, the Zeppelin L 72, surrendered by Germany as war reparations, flies over the Grand Palais (Great Palace) and the Eiffel Tower.
From February 4 to 9, 1920, at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées (Great Palace), the Société Centrale d'Aviculture de France (Central French Poultry Farming Society) exhibits the last of commande...