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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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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