Now all roads lead to France and heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead returning lightly dance.
Edward Thomas, Roads

Friday, November 6, 2020

Wartime Lithographs from France


Soldiers Charging in the Moonlight
Alphonse Grebel



Civilian Deportations from the North
Jean Louis Fairground




Three Exhausted Soldiers
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen




French and Colonial Soldiers Charging
A. Tolmer and Cie




President Wilson Refereeing a Boxing Match
as War Leaders Look On
Camille Boiry




Verdun Under Fire
Albert Robida




Poilu
Charles Toché




Marianne, Symbol of France, Dismissing the Grim Reaper
Lucien Jonas


Source: Library of Congress Collection







4 comments:

  1. Very impressive--and moving. I wonder if the one of the boxing match was a cartoon or did that match, with Wilson, really take place?

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  2. loved the images very powerful in their own way.

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