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• - L'enlisement - [Bogged Down]

  (art) Made by: Desbarbieux, H 1915

  image: In the centre of the composition there appears the head and arms of Germania sinking in a sea of mud. She cries for help; her blond plaits both resting on the surface of the mire. Her left hand clutches one of four posts, with barbed wire...

• Leur croix... Le Kaiser à ses troupes, une quantité considerable de croix de fer . [Their crosses. The Kaiser to his troops, a considerable number of iron crosses]

  (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-04

  image: To the right stands Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, bent leaning on his sword with both hands. He is dressed in pickelhaube, greatcoat and boots. Abjectly he surveys a field of countless graves, each marked with a wrought iron cross. To the left...

• -La Veuve-(La Guillotine) [The Widow Guillotine]

  (art) Made by: Desbarbieux, H 1915

  image: Slightly right of centre of the composition stands Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany facing the viewer against a dark and gloomy background. He is careworn, his turned-up moustaches have turned white, his face sags, his eyes red-rimmed. Wearing a...

• La Reprise des Affaires - Monsieur Baedeker prépare la nouvelle edition de son guide en France. [Business as Usual - Mr Baedeker prepares the new edition of his guide to France.]

  (art) Made by: Faivre, Jules Abel (artist) 1914

  image: To the left of the composition, standing amongst the rubble of buildings destroyed by German bombardment, Monsieur Baedeker takes notes. He is dressed in overcoat and cape, a small brimmed and feathered hat, glasses and sports a beard and...

• Les Etrennes de la Maison Hohenzollern [New Year's Gifts in the Hohenzollern Household]

  (art) Made by: Faivre, Jules Abel 1915

  image: A single German soldier, wearing pickelhaube and glasses gazes surprised into large white confectionary bag decorated with a pink ribbon bow, and bearing the legend 'Pastilles 'incendiaries'. The Imperial German crown features below the text.

• [Untitled]

  (art) Made by: Faivre, Jules Abel (artist) 1915

  image: To the left of the composition stands a portly German infantryman: although his back faces the viewer his grinning profile is clearly visible. Holding his rifle with fixed bloodied bayonet, he looks down upon a dead French girl lying almost face...

• ... Nons sommes encore bien bons Je ne pas réquisitionner votre lait

  (art) Made by: Faivre, Jules Abel (artist) 1914

  image: To the left of the composition a prematurely aged French mother sits amongst the ruins of a bombarded building. Covered in a dark blue shawl she breast feeds her baby who is supported by her left hand. At her feet a small girl huddles up while...

• Le Baptême du Feu - Régulairement ... ma marraine Senrair être là [Baptism of Fire - Regularly...my Godmother Ought to be There]

  (art) Made by: Faivre, Jules Abel 1918

  image: To the right of the composition stands a poilu in full kit, seen three-quarter length. He faces the viewer, smiling, his eyes almost closed, his rosy checks shining. A cigarette hangs from his lips. Behind him and above, numerous artillery...