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Archive for 'History'

Funding the Great War

Found on Net Mole: French World War One Posters

During the first world war the French government was desperate for money, and urged its citizens to cough up their money and gold. These patriotic posters were used to highlight the need for funds. (Click pic for many more)

Posted: Thu 18-Sep-08 under History

Vintage Tour de France

I don't think he won that day. (Click pic for bigger)

Posted: Mon 15-Sep-08 under History

Imperial Frogsmoker

This is what you get when a digital artist is challenged to create a historical deviant:

Totally politically and historically incorrect, totally Frogsmokable! (Click pic for full)

Posted: Fri 12-Sep-08 under History

French Crotch Rocket Launcher

Found on dark Roasted Blend:

After World War II, there was little money for defense spending while the nations of Europe rebuilt their industry and society. When there was some cash to spend, one had to be creative to stretch it as far as possible. The French probably accomplished the most astounding example of that with […]

Posted: Fri 12-Sep-08 under History, Created in France

Vision or coincidence?

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From a French geography schoolbook in 1957: New York without the Twin Towers, a plane in the air, and two smoke plumes in the background. It's obviously coincidence, but ominous nevertheless… Via Agence Eureka

Posted: Thu 11-Sep-08 under History, Events

Most controversial French women in history?

In the Times: The 20 most controversial women in history.
Three françaises feature in the list of "top women leaders with reputations for raising hackles":
3. Joan of Arc (c1412-1431)
Obviously a fruitcake, like any number of religious martyrs, Joan was burned by the English, then burned some more and then thrown into the Seine just so […]

Posted: Wed 10-Sep-08 under People, History

Picnic Party

Having fun in 1929:

André Kertész - A Picnic Party in Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Click for bigger.

Posted: Sun 07-Sep-08 under History

Unbreakable & Elegant

Vintage ad for French corsets from the early 1900s.

Find more on Victoriana, where you will discover that in those days women could choose from rust-proof corsets, glove-fitting corsets, or even a “fairy bust form”. Via Neatorama.

Posted: Fri 05-Sep-08 under History, Created in France

Jacques Higelin & Marie Laforet - St Tropez blues

Found on Filles Sourires:

This little ditty by Marie Laforet (with Jacques Higelin) is one the few songs in which she sings higher than we're used to. It's her first single. The clip is from the movie St. Tropez Blues (1961). The version in the video differs from the studio-version.
While it lastst you can download […]

Posted: Thu 04-Sep-08 under Video & Audio, History

Shot by Germans. Twice.

A French soldier is hit by German fire in the Verdun region, 1916. The photo (click for bigger) was also shot by a German.

Posted: Thu 04-Sep-08 under History

Keep your hands above the sheets — Or else!

This is what happened if you lived in sin in France in 1844:

It's along pictorial story without a happy end:

View the full story on Neatorama

Posted: Wed 03-Sep-08 under History, Created in France, Environment & Health, Oops

Getting to Grips with Art

Found on a Russian site: the specialist of Gougeon install the statues by Mailol in the Tuileries in Paris, 1964. (Click for bigger.)

Posted: Tue 02-Sep-08 under Art & Heritage, History, Created in France

Massacre Game

Nothing to do today? Build your own Jeu de Massacre (click pics for full size papercraft):

One of the notes says: Since the nose of the nigger has just been glued back, please do not hit him too hard!
Via Agence Eureka

Posted: Sun 31-Aug-08 under History, Created in France

Napoleon Crossing The Alps, Day 31 (Final)

Batman Bonaparte
Click for source. (What is this about?)

Posted: Sun 31-Aug-08 under History

Recognize this man?

I was doing a Google picture search for the Sarkozy family, and came across this portrait. It looks like Nicolas at a costume party, but it appears to be his granddad:

Sarkozy’s grandfather, Aron Mallah, and uncle Beniko were well-known Rabbis and devoted Zionists. His cousin, Asher, was a Senator in the Greek Senate and in […]

Posted: Sat 30-Aug-08 under History, Sarkozy & Co

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