50+ Rare Color Photos Of French Soldiers During World War I

#1 French soldiers move a heavy stone near the construction site at the bridge across the Aisne, 1917.

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#2 Four firemen with their equipment, 1917.

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#3 Two French soldiers work at a smith’s hearth in a forge destroyed by grenades, 1917.

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#4 Three French soldiers take a break in front of a heavily damaged building with their small truck, 1917.

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#5 French soldiers from a special unit build a wooden bridge across the Aisne, 1917.

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#6 Two French soldiers heat up a meal on an outdoor fireplace made from brick, 1917.

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#7 Two French soldiers and horses in the cloister of the Abbey de Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, which was heavily damaged by artillery fire, 1917.

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#8 Six French soldiers with buckets and laundry at a fountain, 1917.

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#9 French soldiers dig through the rubble of a destroyed building in Reims, France, 1917

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#10 French soldiers in Hirtzbach, Alsace, 1917

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#11 French machine gunners set up a position amid ruins during the battle of the Aisne in France, 1917

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#12 A girl holds a doll next to soldiers’ equipment in Reims, France, 1917

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#13 French soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment eat soup during the battle of the Aisne, 1917

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#14 A French officer inspects the barbed wire around French positions in Soissons, 1917

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#15 Doctors, nurses and medical personnel in front of field hospital 55 in Bourbourg, France, 1917

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#16 A French outpost near the front in Hirtzbach, Alsace, 1917

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#17 French soldiers camouflage a 370mm railway gun near the Western Front, 1917

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#18 A French soldier peers out from a position on the Western Front in Alsace., 1917

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#19 French soldiers read newspapers at a kiosk in Rexpoede, Calais, 1917

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#20 A French soldier eats a loaf of bread in Reims, France, 1917

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#21 French soldiers stand on a narrow-gauge railroad in an artillery-ravaged battleground in West Flanders, 1917

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#22 Wounded soldiers from the battlefield near Laffaux at Saint-Paul Hospital in Soissons, France, 1917

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#23 A French military cemetery on a hillside in the town of Moosch, Alsace, 1917

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#24 At the Swiss border: French and Swiss military soldiers separated by fences. France, 1917

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#25 Cloakroom guard of the theater to the armies. 1917, France

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#26 Two marines, Belgium, 1917

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#27 Outdoor Cooking, France, 1917

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#28 Left: Sale of newspapers on a stall. France, 1917 | Right: Three young nurses in uniform in front of city hall. Belgium, 1917.

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#29 The heroes of Drie Grachten: five soldiers, officers and soldiers, Belgium, 1917.

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#30 Surgical Center, Belgium, 1917

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#31 Left: French military observation: a watchman at lockstation 26. France, 1917. | Right: Front line trench, observer: trench support work. France, 1917.

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#32 Three soldiers with conjunctivitis poisoned on March 23, 1918; medical photography. France, 1918

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#33 PC phone station protected by sandbags. French soldiers doing their laundry in the troughs of a fountain. France, 1917

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#34 Left: Church with remains of statues in the foreground. France, 1917 | Right: Front line trench: group of hairy in front of the entrance of a shelter. France, 1917

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#35 Frontline trench group of hairy in front of the entrance of a shelter: the haircut. France, 1917

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#36 Bombardment of 2 and 3 September: military and civilian populations, fire hose. Dunkirk, France, 1917

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#37 Barracks, France, 1917

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#38 Left: General Antoine, commander of the First Army. France, 1917 | Right: Belgian General Michel, Commander 4th AD (former Minister of War). Belgium, 1917

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#39 At the Swiss border: four French soldiers in front of the fence, marking the border. Basically, Swiss soldiers. France, 1917

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#40 HQ of the first army. France, 1917

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#41 Front line trench observation post: three French soldiers under observation behind sandbags. France, 1917

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#42 French Captain Robert de Beauchamp stands alongside his British Sopwith fighter in September 1916

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#43 French soldiers clearing the rubble in the ruins of Reims, in 1917

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#44 A soldier is shaved by a barber in a French military encampment in Soissons, while two soldiers wait under a tent, in 1917

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#45 A group of French soldiers rest on the grass as they eat their lunch in Aisne, on the Western Front in France, in 1917

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#46 Two French soldiers and a young boy look through the window of a shop selling alcohol in Reims, France, in 1917

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#47 A French soldier stands by a table which has German grenades and an aircraft propeller on it, in Reims, France, in 1917

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#48 A group of French artillerymen with 75 mm guns on the Western Front, 1916

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#49 Two French soldiers working at the smith’s hearth in a forge destroyed by grenades, in Reims, France, 1917

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#50 Three French soldiers do their laundry at a well in Soissons, 1917

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#51 French military personnel stand by a gun used by French forces during the Battle of Verdun, 1916

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#52 A worker from Indochina in Soissons, France, 1917

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#53 Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire started by the German bombing of Dunkirk, France, 1917

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#54 Shelter, France, 1917

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#55 At the Swiss border: Swiss soldiers, a French soldier and a woman at his window. Switzerland, 1917

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#56 Ambulance cars waiting for the wounded, Belgium, 1917

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#57 French lines at Het Sas, mutilated trees (French military, sheeted shelters, sandbags, storm lamp) Belgium, 1917

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#58 Group of Senegalese soldiers during the hour of rest. France, 1917

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#59 A soldier is shaved by a barber in a French military encampment, 1917.

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#60 Senegalese soldiers serving in the French Army rest near the Western Front in Alsace, 1917.

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#61 An Algerian worker in Noyo, France after the retreat of the Germans, 1917

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#62 Senegalese Bambara soldiers serving with the French Army in Balschwiller, Alsace. , 1917

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#63 Senegalese soldiers in the French Army line up for lunch in Saint-Ulrich, France, 1917

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#64 A Senegalese Bambara, France, 1917

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#65 Senegalese military washing clothes in troughs. France, 1917

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#66 An Algerian guard on a bridge, 1917.

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