



Prime Minister of France Clemenceau J., accompanied by military personnel, leaves the building onto the square, an honor guard at the entrance to the building in 1918. Clemenceau approaches local residents and greets them.
Clemenceau kisses children, treats them to sweets, and thanks them for the meeting.
The honor guard is in formation, the drummer beats a roll.
Clemenceau walks along the line.
Clemenceau talks to the general.
Clemenceau shakes hands with officers.
Arrival of French President Raymond Poincaré to one of the units of the French army.
Poincaré and Clemenceau, accompanied by military personnel, inspect the formation of the military unit.
Poincaré and Clemenceau, accompanied by generals and officers, walk through the parade ground with units lined up on it.
Women and children greet the Prime Minister and the President of France.
Soldiers of the French American and British units in formation with banners.
Poincaré gives a speech, Clemenceau stands next to him.
Poincaré approaches General Petain and hands him the marshal's baton, Clemenceau congratulates Petain, shakes his hand, embraces Poincaré.
Petain accepts congratulations from foreign military attachés.
Clemenceau shakes hands with foreign military attachés.
Clemenceau and Poincaré accept congratulations from officers of the allied armies under a canopy.
Clemenceau Georges Banjamin -- French statesman and political figure Poincaré Raymond Nicolas Landry -- French statesman and political figure Petain Philippe -- French statesman
military leader
1918
France
Autumn




French heavy artillery on a motor vehicle marches, a field kitchen and a horse-drawn tanker move behind the tractors, a column of German prisoners of war passes towards them.
Panorama of the firing position of a French artillery battery, gun crews fire at the enemy.
French light Renault tanks move along the street of a village in France.
View of a moving French tank column.
Tanks move to the outskirts of the village.
A tank crosses a bridge and turns.
Tanks move to their position.
View of part of the territory of a camp for German prisoners of war, a column of prisoners, sentries and an officer at the fence pass by.
German prisoners of war stand in line while being issued essential items.
1917-1918
France
Summer




Panorama of French wire entanglements on a swampy river bank.
Panorama of the front line.
Views and panorama of the front line of defense.
Ventilation hole of the signalmen's dugout, disguised as a pile of construction debris.
A telephone operator and a cipher clerk in the dugout carry out wire communication using a field switchboard.
Soldiers of the infantry regiment in the dugout tidy up their uniforms, a bugler polishes a signal horn.
Soldiers in line for coffee at the window of a teahouse set up on the front line.
1914-1915
France
Autumn




Soldiers queue for coffee at the window of a tea shop set up at the front.
The soldiers receive hot coffee.
1914-1915
France
Autumn




Panorama of the deployment site of one of the French army's support units on the front line, vehicles, warehouses and forges.
A French infantry unit marches along the street of one of the settlements to the front line.
An infantry regiment during a ceremonial formation before heading to the front line.
1916-1917
France
Autumn




A temporary bridge of wagons built by French sappers across a water obstacle, cavalrymen watering horses.
Movement of horse artillery on the Serbian front.
View of mountainous terrain, an infantry unit climbing the mountains, soldiers leading pack animals by the bridle.
View of a temporary wooden bridge.
Panorama of a Serbian settlement, a destroyed wooden bridge.
Infantry and cavalry of the Serbian army on the march.
An artillery battery in a firing position in hilly terrain fires at the enemy.
A column of Bulgarian prisoners of war passes, French Serbian officers watch the column pass, talk among themselves.
Local residents look at the Bulgarian prisoners and troops passing through the city.
1915-1916
Serbia
Summer Autumn