Pour L'Orphelin de la Guerre [For the War Orphan]

whole: the main image occupies the centre left, upper centre, centre and centre right, held within a narrow brown border. A smaller image is positioned in the lower left, lower centre and lower right. The title is separate and positioned along the top edge and upper centre, in brown. The text is partially integrated and positioned upper left, upper centre, upper right, lower left, lower centre and lower right, in brown. All set against a white background. image: a three-quarter length depiction of a man welcoming a young boy at the foot of the steps outside his home. A man, woman and girl are grouped beside them. Two young girls stand at the front door of the house. The lower image depicts a man with his head in his hands and a crying woman who holds onto her child, sitting amidst ruins. text: Pour l'orphelin de la Guerre Souscrivons à l'emprunt EMPRUNT V. Prouvé 1917 COMPOSITION FRANÇAISE Un riche paysan, brave homme, mais malconseillé, hésitait à souscrire à l'emprunt. Un train de rapatriés amène dans son Village des Français amaigris et pâlis qui lui racontent les souffrances courageusement endurées aux pays envahis par ceux qui attendent avec une confiance inébranlable l'heure de la délivrance. Le paysan déjà ému interroge un enfant de dix ans qui faisait partie du convoi. Cet enfant aussi a souffert, il a perdu son père à la guerre, sa mère est morte, il ne sait le sort qui l'attend. Le paysan comprend alors son devoir. Il accueuille l'enfant dans sa maison et souscrit à son bénéfice quarante francs de rente qui lui assureront plus tard un capital d'au moins douze cents francs. Imprimerie militaire BERGER-LEVRAULT, Nancy-Paris. [For the war orphan. Let’s subscribe to the loan. Loan. French composition. A rich peasant, a worthy but ill-advised man, was hesitant about subscribing to the loan. A line of repatriated people brought to his village thin, pale French people who told him of the sufferings bravely endured in the invaded lands by those awaiting the hour of delivery with unshakable confidence. The peasant, already moved, questioned a ten-year-old child who was part of the convoy. That child too had suffered, he had lost his father in the war, his mother was dead, he did not know what fate awaited him. The peasant then understood his duty. He welcomed the child into his home and for his benefit made a subscription giving 40 francs of income which would later ensure him a capital of at least 1200 francs. Berger-Levrault Military Printworks, Nancy-Paris.]

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