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Jean Charles Gutner
Web site for Jean Charles Gutner, photographer and webmaster for wwi-memorials.com
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French Ministry of culture: Quarry of Froidmont at braye-en-Laonnois
Picture and description from the French Ministry of culture for the Quarry of Froidmont at braye-en-Laonnois
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The International Collective for Research and Debate on the First World War (CRID 14-18)
The International Collective for Research and Debate on the First World War (CRID 14-18) is originally a French-based group of researchers, as the list of members indicates.
However, we wish to make some of our projects, texts and resources available to a wider, English-speaking public. Here is a summary, which we hope to update frequently :
-A thematic bibliography on the Great war with links to book reviews.
-"War and the antipodean gaze", a paper by Sandra Mc Allister on New Zealand war photography (pdf).
-"Memorials to French Colonial Soldiers from the Great War", by Robert Aldrich, Sydney University (pdf).
Book review:
O’BRIEN Paul, Mussolini in the First World War. The journalist, the soldier, the fascist, Oxford-New York, Berg, 2005, p. 212.
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Somme department
tourisme office of Somme department to prepare your visit, hotels, restaurants, museums,the Somme's battles fields
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Mémorial de Verdun
site of the memorial of Verdun battle, information about visit, history,museum,
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Art 1914-18 war
The aim of this exhibition is not to review the facts of the war, but to show how they were portrayed by artists on either side of the front line, and indicating the difficulties involved. Amongst the millions of conscripts there were painters of every nationality and every school of painting. Those who were born around the year 1880 belonged to the generation that was called up immediately on the outbreak of war. The war held no secrets for men such as these – they were the ones who did the fighting. Boccioni, Macke, Marc, La Fresnaye and Gaudier-Brzeska died during, or as a consequence of, the war. Only the citizens of neutral countries (for example the Spanish nationals Picasso and Gris) were not called up. Many enlisted out of patriotism or because they could not bear to be away from the action. Until now, with very few exceptions, artists and writers had witnessed wars without actually becoming involved. In 1914, for the first time, they all had to take part: Germans, Britons, Italians, Austro-Hungarians and Frenchmen. Léger became a stretcher-bearer, Kokoschka a cavalryman, Beckmann a medic, Derain an artilleryman, Camoin a camoufleur, Dix a machine-gunner. Many of them drew and painted what they saw and lived through. From the sketchbooks of pencil drawings done at the front to the canvases painted on returning home, theirs is an intense and accurate testimony.
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The Memorials of Dormans
It was built between 1921 and 1931. The Marshal Foch chooses the site of Dormans to perpetuate the memory of the second battle of Marne.
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Mayor's House Chateau-Thierry
Chateau-Thierry's Mayor house web site with contacts details and more
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