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Paris1914-1918

The Daily life
of Parisians
during the Great War
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Place Denfert-Rochereau. A group of old, unenlistable pensioners listening admiringly to the latest news, undoubtedly with comments from a retired officer

Charles Lansiaux

Boulevard Poissonnière, photograph, August 20-30, 1914

© Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger Viollet

Commenting on official communiqués seemed to be one of the civilian population's major preoccupations.

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