Tag: first World War
a law at the origins of the professional reintegration of the disabled
Allowing those disabled from the Great War to resume an active part in the life of the nation in times of peace, such was the challenge of a founding law…
Minimum old age granted to skirmishers: “They will be able to live in a decent way”
On January 4, the day the film was released Skirmishers, the French government announced that veterans of Senegalese, Malian or Mauritanian origin could now receive the full minimum old age…
Omar Sy on the poster of “Tirailleurs”: the importance of “remembering their role during the First World War”
/ Podcasts / Cultural guest It is this Wednesday, January 4, (following Friday in Senegal) that the theatrical release in France of the film Skirmishers by Mathieu Vadepied. Screened at…
In the spotlight: the hostage policy of the Iranian mullahs
Catherine Colonna confirms it to the newspaper The Parisian Sunday : “ two other compatriots (…) are also detained in Iran, bringing the number of French nationals detained in this…
Since the end of the Great War, the astonishing profession of sky acrobats
For more than a century, women and men have had fun walking on the wings of airplanes in mid-flight. If after a series of accidents, the “wing walkers” are now…
the photographic treasure of a couple of farmers from the Somme
In 1914-1918, the village of Vignacourt, in the Somme, was an important rear base for Allied soldiers. A couple, passionate about photography, left a real treasure, testifying to life behind…
A soldier photographer during the Great War in Amiens
A history professor unearthed more than 400 photos taken by a French officer in 1915 in Amiens. These pictures are an exceptional testimony to what life was like behind the…
Jessica Nelson, the novel by Raymond Radiguet
Literary journalist, co-founder of Les Saints Pères editions, Jessica L. Nelson is also a writer and has just published, with Albin Michel editions, a novel entitled “Shining Like a Tear”…
Spanish flu: what is it?
The flu Spanish or great flu is responsible for one of the pandemics deadliest encountered by mankind. Just after the First World War, between 1918 and 1921, a particularly virulent…