Paris1914-1918

The Daily life
of Parisians
during the Great War

PARIS AT WAR

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Paris --Fluctuat nec mergitur [Tossed around but still afloat --the motto of the city of Paris since the 12^th century] (To General Gallieni)

Maurice Neumont

Engraving, 1914

© Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger Viollet

Part of a series by Maurice Neumont entitled 1914!, this engraving personifies Paris as a woman fighter defying the enemy from a bastion. The city's slogan was a perfect illustration of its spirit of resistance.

Ville de Paris