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A l'hopital (At the hospital)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A young officer, with an amputated leg, and a nurse, stand beside a hospital bed where a fellow soldier lies. The soldier with the amputated leg remarks: 'Don't feel sorry for yourself. You will be ab...ART50142
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Bonne nuit! les neutres (Good night, neutrals)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A boat has been torpedoed, and some of the bodies float in the sea. A German sailor looks out from his submarine and with his hands to his mouth cries: 'Good night! neutrals'. Neutrals refers to the m...ART50130
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Dans des faubourgs de Londres (In the suburbs of London)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A body of a girl lies among the smoking ruins of a bombed house. London was bombed many times. Coutin 1987 (48D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion, 23 October 1915, pp. 328-9 (48A). There is a dr...ART50147
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Dans le Nord (In the North)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Women, children, and old men wait on the footpath at a crossroad. A German soldier watches over them. A large number of inhabitants of Lille, and other occupied towns in northern France, were arrested...ART50152
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Debout, les morts! (Wake the dead)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A German soldier dances through a cemetery with hats on top of wooden crosses. The man is trying to arouse the dead buried in the graveyard. He is possibly holding a tambourine above his head. This wo...ART50129
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Devant Verdun: leur consolation (In front of Verdun: their consolation)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Innumerable graves mark those of German soldiers killed at Verdun. The Crown Prince stands and places his hand on the shoulder of Bethmann-Hollweg who kneels in prayer, and consoles him with the remar...ART50141
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La borne (The milestone)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Depicts a dead German soldier, lying face down, on the ground, next to a mile post on which is inscribed 'Verdun 11 kil'. Behind this German soldier are piles of bodies of other dead soldiers. The Ge...ART50154
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La Fete National (National celebration)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A young boy climbs on a street lamp to get a view of the crowd assembled in the Place de la Concorde. Although Paris was under attack, the allied troops still paraded on 14 July. This was published in...ART50155
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La justice (The justice)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Cardinal Mercier, the Belgian primate, wearing his mitre and carrying his staff, walks through a devastated Belgian landscape. Cardinal Mercier was arrested for reading a pastoral letter to the Belgia...ART50153
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La philosophie du front (The philosophy of the front)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
One soldier, in front of a comrade's simple wooden cross, asks another soldier: 'What do you want?...That's life...'. Coutin 1987 (19D).This work was published in 'L'Opinion, 3rd April 1915, p. 216-21...ART50148
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La seance fut secrete (It was a secret meeting)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A Deputy, walking over the bodies of French soldiers, gives German soldiers an account of a meeting of the United Chamber. Coutin 1987 (131D). This work was not published, but was intended for publica...ART50136
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L'autre tranchee (The other trench)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A woman tills a field. She is accompanied by a child, who guides a horse. There is a soldier's grave in the foreground (on the right of the image). Coutin 1987 (59D). This work was published in 'Le Fi...ART50145
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Le 4 Août 1914 ( August 1914)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
German soldiers massacre the population of a village which they have burnt down. This work was published on the first anniversary of the beginning of the war. This work was published in 'L'Opinion', 7...ART50150
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Le Bon Feu, 1914-1915, n'oubliez pas ceux qui ont froid
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis PARIS : BON FEU, 1916 (PARIS : H. CHACHOIN) H. Chachoin
A woman with a shroud over her head stands beside a seated man, both are facing away from the fireplace to indicate that they have no fuel for their fire. Text in French says not to forget those peo...ARTV07342
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L'ecole des neutres III (The neutrals' lesson) III
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
The dead bodies of women and children lie on a beach, the victims of a German torpedo attack. Coutin 1987 (44D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion', 25 September 1915, pp. 232-233 (44A). There is ...ART50139
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L'ecole des neutres (The neutrals' lesson)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Bodies of civilians washed up on a shore; a wrecked ship in the distance. The submarine war took many civilian and military victims. Coutin 1987 (12D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion', 13 Febru...ART50138
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L'ecole des neutres (The neutrals' lesson)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A German submarine surfaces after having torpedoed an unknown boat. The captain and his second-in-command stand on deck to view the boat with binoculars. One of them remarks: 'It's a Scandinavian/ Ah!...ART50137
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Le fete-Dieu a Paris (Corpus domini in Paris)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A bomb explodes in the interior of a church, upsetting the monstrance and a vase of flowers. This work was published in 'Oui', 4 June 1918, p.1 (153A). There is drawing of this subject in private coll...ART50156
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Le pays reconquis (Regained country)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
In a ruined village that has been regained by the French, women and children are both joyous at being back home and greif-stricken at the destsruction of their houses. Soldiers and buildings can be se...ART50135
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Le repli allemande (The German answer)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A German soldier pulls a blanket out of the arms of an old woman. Another soldier looks on, and a girl runs away from a burning village. The Germans burnt and destroyed villages which they left behind...ART50133
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Le repli boche (The Bosche answer)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
In the ruins of a village, a young boy explains to two soldiers: 'There was a grenade in her doll'. The girl lies dead, with her face on the ground. Coutin 1986 (25); Coutin 1987 (124D) This work was ...ART50132
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Le terrain reconquis (Reconquered ground)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
In a village cemetery two women and a young boy pray in front of a grave (possibly that of their son and husband). They comment 'J'ai bien cru que je ne les reverrais jamais (I did not believe that th...ART50140
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Le vêtement du prisonnier de guerre [The clothing of the prisoner of war]
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Maker: Champenois, F Forain, Jean-Louis PARIS : CROIX-ROUGE FRANCAIS [N.D.] (PARIS : F. CHAMPENOIS)
The image depicts a French prisoner of war who seated writing a letter with a pen in his right hand leaning on his right knee. His left hand sheilds his face and cradles his head. This poster which i...ARTV07415
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L'Inlassable (Indefatigable)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A large Russian soldier advances holding a sword in his right hand. Behind him (on the left of the image) canons are ranged, ready to fire. This work was published in 'L'Opinion', 14 August 1915, p. 1...ART50149
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On va dire a maman, que c'est plein de ble, l'eau de mer (We must tell mummy that sea water is full of wheat)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Two barefooted children stand on a beach. The boy holds his shoes in his hand an looks at the girl who is holding sheafs of wheat in her hand. Many cargoes were lost through German torpedo attacks, an...ART50131
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Souvenirs d'enfant; les prisonniers passent (Childhood memories; prisoners pass by)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
In a bomb-devastated village, a little girl views a column of German prisoners marching past, and asks her mother: 'Tell me, mummy!...Are they the ones who killed daddy?' Coutin 1987 (66D). This work ...ART50143
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S-Secretariat d'etat a la demobilisation, commercants, industriels, agriculteurs! [Secretary of state of the demobilisation, commercial, industrial, agriculturalists.
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis [PARIS] : SECRETARIAT SOCIAL D'ETAT A LA DEMOBILIZATION, [N.D.] ( PARIS : CHACHOIN) H. Chachoin
A little boy points to buildings in the distance and the French soldier in uniform bends over with the weight of his belongings which are carried in two bags one slung over each shoulder. Beneath the ...ARTV06647
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Sunt lacrymae rerum ( They are tears of the world)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Two soldiers sit in a devastated village and ask a women with her arms around a young girl in tears: 'Why does she cry?' They receive the reply: 'She came back to find her house'. Innocent women and c...ART50151
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Un aviatik passe (A passing aeroplane)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A woman stands, gripping her fists, while she looks up at the sky. Behind her other women, who are nursing children, sit on the ground and look at the sky. The caption reads: 'And to think that there ...ART50144
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Un raid au dessus d'une "place forte" anglaise (A raid over a British fortress)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Grief-stricken women lamenting over dead children in a devastated town after a German air raid. Coutin 1987 (132). This work was not published, but was intended for publication in 'Figaro', July 1917.ART50134