In a hornet's nest (1918)

France, 1918. French officers walk along a railway track.

A board nailed to a tree, NDP: "Crapeaumesnil Fresnieres".

French officers inspect a derailed train.

NDP on a railway platform: "Breslau".

Panorama: military equipment, boxes, shell casings scattered on the ground.

Shells lying on the ground, French soldiers walking along a trench.

A group of German prisoners of war holding machine guns.

Landscape: a lone tree in a field, an explosion in the background.

Panorama: a camouflaged French heavy gun, the gun crew.

Caption: "On the Marne".

The Marne River, French soldiers floating in a boat.

Raising a sunken boat.

French soldiers pulling a boat out of the water onto the shore.

Bank of the Marne River.

Broken carts, barrels, and half-submerged boats are lying in the water near the shore.

A destroyed bridge, metal structures.

Panorama: French sappers are building a wooden bridge.

A truck is driving along a wooden bridge made of fresh planks, logs and planks are lying on the river bank.

A group of French cavalrymen, including colonial soldiers, are driving through a field.

There is a cart on the road.

A truck is driving along a dirt road, a heavy gun on a trailer, French soldiers in the back, a cart is driving, a field kitchen is on the trailer, French soldiers are walking, a cart, a barrel of water is driving by, a column of German prisoners of war under the escort of colonial soldiers is passing in the opposite direction, French cavalry is driving along the road, French soldiers are standing on the side of the road.

A French battery in a field, gun salvos, gun crews.

Gun teams drive along the street of a ruined city, French soldiers stand on the road.

French Renault FT-17 tanks drive along the street of a ruined settlement, soldiers pass by.

A Renault FT-17 tank drives by, turns around, and French soldiers sit on the tank.

French officers stand by a barbed wire fence, watching a column of German prisoners of war pass by.

French soldiers hand out bread to German prisoners of war.

Portraits of German prisoners of war: teenagers aged 14-15. Review of French military units.

French soldiers in formation with banners, the President of the French Republic R. Poincaré, the Prime Minister of the French Republic J. Clemenceau, and General A. Petain walk along the formation.

The President of the French Republic R. Poincaré presents a military medal to General A. Petain, they shake hands.

The President of the French Republic R. Poincaré and the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces Marshal F. Foch walk along the line of French troops, standing with their banners lowered.

August 1918. The President of the French Republic R. Poincaré presents F. Foch with a marshal’s baton, the Prime Minister of the French Republic J. Clemenceau shakes his hand, in the background are French generals.

The President of the French Republic R. Poincaré, the Prime Minister of the French Republic J. Clemenceau and others talk with Marshal Foch, congratulate him, and shake hands.

Marshal F. Foch, in a group of French generals and staff officers, makes a gesture with his hand holding a marshal’s baton.

The headquarters of the French army.

Prime Minister of the French Republic J. Clemenceau, Marshal F. Foch and others watch the French soldiers marching in formation, panorama: French generals, representatives of the allied armies.