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Description: | image: An allegory of a unified Third Republic in the face of German aggression. In an image surrounded by foliage, a
priest, to the left, his head turned away from the viewer, holds a wheeled shell hod from which a bourgeois, facing left, bends to lift an
artillery shell. In the background and centrally placed standing above the two figures there is a French artilleryman in red shirt, red and
blue képi, white trousers, holding a fuse beside the open breech of a heavy artillery piece pointing left out of the composition. Behind
the artilleryman a comrade manoeuvres the howitzer into position with a large lever held above his head. Engulfing clouds of smoke surround
these two. Beneath the composition there is printed a quote from French president Raymond Poincaré made regarding the Union Sacrée on the 4
August 1914. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Allegory Raymond N L Costume and fashion Military Personnel FR.A Religion Artillery Poincaré | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lutetia, Paris | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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