This postcard is a montage which uses a touched up photograph: the background, where the main courtyard is recognisable with part of one of the planes displayed, was lightened to make the shell and the […]
- 09 -152014
Les Invalides during the Great War, seventeenth episode : passing through the Invalides
- 09 -122014
Les Invalides during the Great War, sixteenth episode : the 420 mm shell
On that day, the main courtyard is open to the public. Civilians and military come to see the trophies installed in 1915. Unexploded 420 mm shell The photograph shows the public’s curiosity for the impressive […]
- 09 -082014
Les Invalides during the Great War, fifteenth episode : the British Empire
On the great esplanade of the Invalides stands a group of British Indian Army cavalrymen recognisable by their turbans and the spurs fastened to their heels. The Indian Army in Paris Three of them posed […]
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