Verdun, 23/6/20, vue générale pendant la cérémonie [commémoration de l'échec allemand de 1916] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59819

23/6/20, cérémonie commémorative [de l'échec allemand de 1916] à Verdun : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59824

23/6/20, cérémonie [commémorative de l'échec allemand de 1916] au cimetière de Verdun : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59827

Verdun, 23/6/20, cérémonie commémorative [de l'échec allemand de 1916], M. Lefèvre pose la 1ère pierre du monument aux morts de Verdun : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59833

Les capetiens et la France feodale depuis le traite de Verdun jusqu'a la mort de Philippe-Auguste

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Vie des martyrs, 1914-1916.

A travers le territoire.--Histoire de Carré et de Lerondeau.--Mémorial de la vie des martyrs.--Mort de Mercier.--A Verdun.--Le sacrifice.--La troisième symphonie.--La grace.--Nuits en Artois.

1916: A Global History

The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course.

Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations and shows how they reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such as Gallipoli, Verdun and the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia and Russia, where the killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country's empire. And, in charting a wide range of wartime experience, he studies the 'intelligence war', naval engagements at Jutland and elsewhere, as well as the political consequences that ensued from the momentous US presidential election.

Using an extraordinary range of military, social and cultural sources, and relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider developments, these are the stories lost to history, the conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Europe and the moments that transformed the war. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/1916-9781408834305/#sthash.axFq0psR.dpuf

Dublin 1916: theatre of revolt

At Easter 1916, Dublin city centre was one of a series of sites throughout Ireland where a rebellion was staged against British rule. It was a strategic failure, swiftly crushed by superior British forces. The event, however, subsequently took a central role in the mythology of modern Ireland.

The first visual representations were of the conflict’s aftermath: photographic journeys through landscapes of ruin. From the distance of the camera, we see none of the pockmarks of shell bursts, nor the etchings of machine guns. Instead, traces of life in the city seem to have been swept aside by an unseen hand: the passing of millennia or a violent action of nature. Architecture alone has witnessed and recorded its presence. Amongst the fragments, the shell of the General Post Office (G.P.O.) in Sackville Street is one of the few buildings still wholly recognizable. The remnants of its classical form, portico and pediment, columns and entablature seem to transcend its prosaic modern functions and allude to something more ancient. The bewilderment of city’s inhabitants is also recorded. Dubliners have become inquisitive tourists in streets which hitherto were the locus of everyday life. They wander around aimlessly in a landscape as alien and picturesque as Pompeii. This shift in perception was captured by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats who hinted that Dublin, purged of modern commercialism had transcended its petty inadequacies to revive a slumbering heroic past.

‘I have met them at the close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses [.]’
All is changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.’

His comments were prescient. Initially unpopular, the republican leaders, executed by the British, slowly became recast as heroic martyrs. Similarly, the spaces where their heroism was forged became venerated. The G.P.O. and Sackville Street, however, already had a republican history. It was originally conceived in the eighteenth century as part of a series of magnificent urban spaces to provide an arena of spectacle and self-celebration for the colonial Anglo-Irish and their vision of a Protestant republic. O’Connell/Sackville Street became the temporal, geographical and mythical hinge upon which two different versions of Irish republicanism waxed and waned. Its recasting after independence as a space of Catholic Nationalism bore testimony to its consistency in providing a backdrop for the production of ritual and myth. In the 1920s and 30s, as the nascent country, beset with economic stagnation and political tensions, turned to spectacle as a salve for it social problems, O’Connell Street and the G.P.O. provided its most sacred sites. Within the introduction of new myths, however, individual as well as national identities were created and consolidated. The emerging identity of modern Ireland became inextricably linked with that of one ambitious politician. His uses of the G.P.O. in particular revealed a perceptive understanding of the political uses of classical architecture and urban space.

Verdun, Porte Mazel [i.e. Porte Chaussée] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59818

[23/6/20], pose de la 1ère pierre du monument aux morts à Verdun : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59821

[23/6/20], Verdun, pose de la 1ère pierre du monument aux morts : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59823

23/6/20, cérémonie au cimetière de Verdun [en tête de cortège MM. Pétain, Poincaré, Lefèvre et Maginot] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59828

23/6/20, cérémonie au cimetière de Verdun [MM. Maginot, Poincaré, Pétain] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59830