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Description: | image: A full length portrait of the writer Maurice Barres dressed in the uniform of the Academie Francaise. Right hand on
hip, holding his official bicorn hat. In his left hand he holds his cane and a book. In the background from left to right we have a row of
the churches of France which are labelled 'Les Eglises de France'. In front of the line of churches a marching column of French Infantry in
horizon blue and displaying their regimental colours imposed upon a tricolour move towards the city of Metz (labelled) in the right of the
picture. The whole is surrounded by a decorative border of laurel intertwined with a tricolour ribbon, the focus of which is a patriotic
rosette bottom centre. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15) Barrés Literature Military Personnel FR.A Religion Maurice portrait / personification Uniforms commemorative | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Devambez, Paris | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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