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Paris1914-1918

The Daily life
of Parisians
during the Great War

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Refugee families in the streets of Paris in flight from Northern France

Charles Lansiaux

Photograph, August 20-30, 1914

© Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger Viollet

The terror evoked by Charles Lansiaux becomes easier to understand given that France was still predominantly rural in 1914 and people were completely unused to long trips.

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