The children no longer know about anything except war games--these are future infantry soldiers laying in wait for the enemy
Charles LansiauxBoulevard Edgar Quinet, photograph, April 1915
© Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger Viollet
In totally mobilized France, as the War dragged on and calls for mobilizations by age-group kept being issued, little boys were often seen as future fighters whose patriotism needed to be encouraged.
