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Children. Paul Nadar. Father. Victor Tournachon. Signature. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1]), known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs.
Panthéon de la Guerre. Flag of the Czechoslovak Legion in the Pantheon de la Guerre. The Panthéon de la Guerre was a monumental artwork painted in Paris during the First World War, a circular panorama 402 feet (123 m) in circumference and 45 feet (14 m) high. It has been described as the largest painting in the world. [1][2]
The French Art of War (French: L'Art français de la guerre) is a 2011 novel by the French writer Alexis Jenni, published by Éditions Gallimard. It is an adventure story about the military history of France in Indochina and Algeria. [1] It received the Prix Goncourt, with five votes to three against Carole Martinez 's Du domaine des Murmures ...
Plan XVII. Plan XVII (pronounced [plɑ̃ dis.sɛt]) was the name of a "scheme of mobilisation and concentration" which the French Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre (the peacetime title of the French Grand Quartier Général) developed from 1912 to 1914, to be put into effect by the French Army in the event of war between France and Germany.
French war planning 1920–1940. The Dyle plan or Plan D was the plan of the commander-in-chief of the French Army, Général d'armée Maurice Gamelin, to defeat a German attempt to invade France through Belgium. The Dyle (Dijle) river is 86 km (53 mi) long, from Houtain-le-Val through Flemish Brabant and Antwerp; Gamelin intended French ...
Effectively dissolved during the early years of the French Revolution thanks to a decision by the Constituent Assembly to suppress the military geographical-engineers corps, [1] it was reestablished by Étienne Nicolas de Calon between April 1793 and May 1797, [2] under the new name Dépôt général de la Guerre et de la Géographie (in full ...
Plan Gimel (Plan C), also known as "May Plan", produced in May 1946, [17] emerged in November/December 1947, in the wake of the UN Partition Plan. It was designed to enhance Zionist military and police mobilisation and enable action as needed. [dubious – discuss] [18] [19] [20] Plan Dalet (Plan D), of March 1948, is the most noteworthy ...
Fourragère of the Croix de guerre 1914-1918. The Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (English: War Cross) was a French military decoration, the first version of the Croix de Guerre. It was created to recognize French and allied soldiers who were cited for valorous service during World War I, similar to the British mentioned in dispatches but with ...