Exhibition/sale of paintings donated by artists to benefit offered loans to soldiers blinded during the war
Galerie Nunès et FiquetDessin de Steinlen Théophile Alexandre, 1917
© Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger Viollet
Soldiers who were "mutilated in the eyes," approximately 42,000 at war's end, were a particular concern because of the difficulty of reinserting them into society.
