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• 'La Manière Française' - L'Emprunt de la Defense Nationale [The French Navy, National Defense Loan]

  (art) Made by: Bonfils, Robert (artist) 1918

  image: A French farmworker in a blue smock and matching cap stands with his back towards the viewer against a small tree to his right. His spade rests against the tree. In both hands he carries small sacks of coins and surveys a snow covered village in...

• 'La Manière Française' - La Réception des Zeppelins [The French Navy, Dealing with the Zeppelins]

  (art) Made by: Bonfils, Robert (artist) 1918

  image: A night scene on the rooftops of Paris during the first Zeppelin raid. In the foreground four figures look towards the heights of Montmartre, surmounted by the silhouette of Sacre-Coeur. Directly behind the basilica a searchlight beams upward from...

• 'La Manière Française' - L'Accueil du Permissionaire [The French Navy, Welcomed Home on Leave]

  (art) Made by: Bonfils, Robert (artist) 1918

  image: A French poilu, home on leave, is embraced by his wife. In a red dress and standing on tiptoes she has her back to the viewer. In her left arm she holds a wailing baby, its head turned towards us. Her right arm is wrapped tightly around her...

• Notre 75 'Quand il a parlé, tout se tait' [Our ‘75’ (75mm gun) When it speaks, all else falls quiet ]

  (art) Made by: Bernard, Edouard 1915

  image: Against a gloomy sunset and upon a grassy mound stands a smoking but unmanned French 75mm field gun, facing left. Below running the length of the composition lies the detritus of battle: a broken limber, four German corpses and two dead mules.

• 'La Manière Française' - En Alsace [The French Navy, In Alsace]

  (art) Made by: Bonfils, Robert (artist) 1918

  image: To the centre right of the composition there sits, beneath a blossoming cherry tree, the female personification of Alsace wearing her traditional costume and headdress. At her feet kneels a French poilu, his back to the viewer, presenting her with...