- 11 -152017
Animals & war, episode 23: Decors of the Hôtel des Invalides
Sculptures with allegorical animals adorn the sixty dormer windows of the Cour d’Honneur. The three reproduced above feature dolphins and lions. The lion is undoubtedly the most represented. The dormer window decorated with two elephant […]
- 10 -202017
Animals and war, episode 18 : The Bear
This map illustrates the political situation in 1914-1915 from the Russian point of view. The different nations are represented by national stereotypes or symbols. Czar Nicholas II occupies a prominent place, and in his empire […]
- 10 -162017
Animals and war, episode 17 : The Cow and The Bull
Camouflage is the art of concealment and deception. The French Army became the first to establish a Camouflage Section in February 1915 in order create visual deception and protect soldiers and equipment from observation by […]
- 10 -042017
Animals and war, episode 14: Dromedaries & Camels
Matchlock musket, ca 1590-1600 © Paris, musée de l’Armée, Dist. RMN-GP / Tony Querrec Camel’s saddle on exhibit in the room dedicated to the Campaign in Egypt in the Musée de l’Armée © Paris, musée de […]
- 09 -202017
Animals and war, episode 11: The cat
On this poster no human being is visible. British Mark tanks fire in all directions as they ride over the trenches and the barbed wire in No Man’s Land. An attacking cat leaps above the […]
- 09 -152017
Animals and war, episode 10: The tiger
The French captured this flag adorned with a white tiger during the Tonkin War in 1885, along with eight other flags. It is hanging from one of the cornices of the Saint-Louis-des-Invalides Cathedral. At the […]
- 09 -112017
Animals and war, episode 9: Insects
The 1917 issue n°18 of the French trench newspaper Ver luisant (“The Glow-Worm”), tells the story of the war through the eyes of a louse. The louse is represented sitting on a man’s head, writing […]
- 09 -062017
Animals and war, episode 8: The Elephant
« De l’exercice de la sixiesme classe, asçavoir de batailler avec des Élephants ». The above reproduction of the war-elephant is taken from La Milice Romaine avec la traduction de Flave Vegece en langue Françoise […]
- 09 -012017
Animals and war, episode 7: The Mule
Origines de l’artillerie française, planches autographiées d’après les monuments du XIVe et du XVe siècle avec introduction, table et texte descriptif by Lorédan Larchey, published in Paris in 1863. The facsimile plate shows an Italian […]
- 08 -282017
Animals and war, episode 6: The Ostrich
A twentieth century lead figurine inspired by a lithograph by Draner, on exhibit in the Cabinets Insolites of the Musée de l’Armée. © Paris, musée de l’Armée. A description of Egypt. Three Egyptian kings can be […]
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