The year 1915 – Putting an end to the trenches (CM n°251)
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The event
The massive use of poison gas
On 22 April 1915, a threshold was crossed in war violence when the German high command decided to use toxic gas on Allied troops in front of Ypres. Colonel Mordacq, present at the scene, recounted this terrible day.
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The figure
The Croix de Guerre is 100 years old
Right from the first battles in the summer of 1914, a shortcoming was quickly detected in the French system of rewarding deserving combatants. It was not until April 1915 that the Croix de Guerre was created which was then to become the very symbol of victorious First World War soldiers. Vidéo commé...Read more -
The interview
Nicole Buresi
Agrégée (holder of highest teaching diploma in France) in Literature and a playwright, this teacher ran a writer's workshop for six months on the Great War. Nicole Buresi told us about this joint work that culminated with the publication of a novel, Bassoles goes off to war.
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