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illustration by J. Simont : Poilus Getting a Shoe-Shine in Front of Notre-Dame

French Infantry on Furlough Passing Notre-Dame

An illustration by Simont from L'Illustration :

Decorated heros, but still properly in awe of the big city, they politely and demurely stroll the grand boulevards of Paris.

Intended as an uplfting moral illustration, this is probably a somewhat unrealistic view of things..

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