Paris en guerre, 1914-1918: Le quotidien des femmes, des enfants, des vieillards, des embusqués et des profiteurs

Bombed, rationed, caught between “optimists” and “pessimists,” disillusioned by the parade of the wounded that the front discharged daily into new private and public hospitals, Parisians – mostly women, children, the elderly, refugees, and the “embusqués,” or soldiers with cushy postings – despite everything managed to weather the storm, often with bottomless morale, humor, and courage. In light of close to 600 photographs and documents of the time, of numerous live testimonies and information describing their daily life as months went by, this volume traces the daily lives of Parisians during the First World War.  [author]