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Cartoon, Charles I and the chamberlain, WW1Cartoon, Charles I and the chamberlain. Charles I of Austria (Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie, 1887-1922), who succeeded Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916, seen here on his throne
Front cover, La Baionnette, WW1Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue for Christmas, showing a French soldier on the Western Front finding the baby Jesus in a crate marked Fragile. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Waitress, WW1Cartoon, Waitress, showing a pretty young woman in a white apron serving a beer to a French soldier in uniform. Date: 1915
Cartoon, At the camp of Maurice de Saxe (1745). Elegant ladies of the theatre step out of a carriage and are kissed on the hand by the French general and Marshal of France
Cartoon, The Last of the Last Lines, WW1Cartoon, The Last of the Last Lines. Showing a scarecrow version of Paul von Hindenburg holding a sword, with Kaiser Wilhelm and the Crown Prince on the right
Cartoon, The Merry Widows, WW1Cartoon, The Merry Widows. A reference to the operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar, showing widows of the First World War in a cafe looking anything but merry
Cartoon, A Specialist, WW1Cartoon, A Specialist. A group of GVC (Gardes-Voies et Communications) soldier are talking. The corporal tells a guard to keep an eye on ouvrages d'art
Cartoon, Reckoning without their host, WW1Cartoon, Reckoning without their host. Defeated at Verdun, Germany, Prussia and Death walk away despondently. A smiling French soldier in the background says they had everything planned
Cartoon, Bread and Circuses, WW1Cartoon, Bread and Circuses. The figure of Death kneels by his broken sword. He says he's done enough now, and would like some bread to eat. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, WW1Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, showing Kaiser Wilhelm being carried along on a float, with various figures around him, including Death, a spy, a sorceress
Cartoon, A good idea, WW1Cartoon, A good idea. A French soldier says he has asked his father to write to say he is dead: that way, he will be able to get leave of absence from the Front. Date: 1916
Cartoon, German women in uniform, WW1Cartoon, plump German women in uniform, one of them causing a horse to collapse under her weight, and another two who have just been called the last bastions of the empire. Date: 1916
Cartoon, The good trader. A salesman of food and other items offers a French soldier some Camembert cheese for a much lower price if he will say where the 20th Corps is
Cartoon, Two German spies. Two fat men at a table laden with food agree that its worth being spies and risking their lives, when they can eat so well. 1916
Cartoon, Hunting season. At a French border post, two German officers ask two French soldiers if the hunting season is in progress hereabouts. 1916
Front cover, La Baionnette, WW1Front cover design, La Baionnette, an issue focusing on the Americans, showing a symbolic image of the American war machine, with soldiers pouring out of it to support the Allied cause. Date: 1918
Clemenceau as a tiger, mauling Germany, an eagleCartoon on the cover of La Baionnette depicting the French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau, as a tiger and Germany, an eagle, as his prey
Cartoon, Two French soldiers in a trench, WW1Cartoon, Two French soldiers in a trench discuss the sending of gifts and mascots to the Western Front. (They themselves don t appear to have any.) Date: 1917
Cartoon, French and German soldiers, WW1Cartoon, French and German soldiers. A French soldier sticks a bayonet into a German soldier, telling him that he has sung the socialist Internationale for twenty years
Cartoon, After the explosion, WW1Cartoon, After the explosion. A naive new recruit in a trench on the Western Front comments that these shells break as soon as they hit the ground! Date: 1916
Cartoon, Entente cordiale, WW1Cartoon, Entente cordiale. A pretty French woman tells a friendly British soldier to be sure to send her some postcards as soon as he eventually arrives at Tipperary. Date: 1916
Cartoon, In the trench club, WW1Cartoon, In the trench club. Some French soldiers are playing cards for money in their trench when an explosion goes off nearby
Cartoon, Family man, WW1Cartoon, Family man. A middle aged French soldier reprimands a young German soldier for shooting at him. He says if he didn t have a boy of his age, he would give him a couple of slaps. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Holy France! WW1Cartoon, Holy France! A middle-aged soldier tells his colleague about his son, who is almost grown up at fifteen. He says that if someone in his family has to take a hit
Cartoon, Two Horses, WW1Cartoon, Two Horses on the Western Front, hearing explosions. One horse asks the other: Doesn t all this noise scare you? The other horse replies: No, I m used to it
Cartoon, Pilot falling from plane, WW1Cartoon, a German pilot falls from his plane towards an airfield below. He doesn t appear to have a parachute, but he feels fortunate to have his little dog mascot with him. Date: 1917
Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and a fortune teller, WW1Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm goes to consult a fortune teller to find out when the war will end. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Enigma, WW1Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916
Cartoon, The Kaisers dream, WW1Cartoon, The Kaisers dream (or nightmare) after losing at Verdun -- a ginger-haired angel holding a rabbit. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Epiphany 1916, WW1Cartoon, Epiphany 1916, illustrating a contemporary version of a childrens song about the Three Kings. Here, the three kings are from Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria
Cartoon, soldier reunited with mother, WW1Cartoon, showing a French soldier reunited with his mother, telling her not to worry, he is not injured in any part of his body. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Women also profiteer, WW1Cartoon, Women also profiteer. Showing how women are also profiting from the war, either by socialising with servicemen or selling them expensive flowers, food and drink. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Keep your mouth shut, WW1Cartoon, Keep your mouth shut -- a new take on a fable of Aesop during the First World War, where the fox will never be able to get the crow to open his mouth and drop the nice piece of cheese
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915
Cartoon, German women also Uber Alles, WW1Cartoon, German women are also Uber Alles. Six scenes depicting German women and their influence on everyday life. Date: 1916
Cartoon, The Bulgarian Cad, WW1Cartoon, The Bulgarian Cad (with a pun on his large nose), showing King Ferdinand of Bulgaria admiring himself in a hand mirror. Date: 1915
Cartoon, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Judas, WW1Cartoon, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Judas, both seen as betrayers. Judas hanged himself in remorse after betraying Christ, and he now offers Ferdinand a rope for him to do the same. Date: 1915
Cartoon, Replacing those who are at the Front, WW1Cartoon, Replacing those who are at the Front, showing French women taking on mens jobs during the First World War: shaving a man in a barbers shop, punching a travel ticket, selling newspapers
Cartoon, French cafe scene, WW1Cartoon, French cafe scene. Two men sit drinking outside a cafe in a French town. An unhappy looking man walks past, preoccupied from reading exaggerated German communiques about their wartime
Cartoon, End of the show, WW1Cartoon, End of the show. The woman in her orange devil costume begins to make her exit, and the orchestra of yowling cats and mythological musicians also disperse. Date: 1918
Cartoon, On leave in Paris, WW1Cartoon, On leave in Paris. Two French soldiers outside a cinema are dismayed to see that all the films are about the war -- to think we came here to have fun! Date: 1917
Cartoon, In Memory of the Lusitania, WW1Cartoon, In Memory of the Lusitania. Two sailors fire on a German submarine in retaliation for the lost ship. Date: 1917
Cartoon, Dirty Business, WW1Cartoon, Dirty Business. The arrival of American troops to join the Allied forces gives Kaiser Wilhelm a shock. Date: 1917
