Patrie Collection

French War Balloon Patrie 1907
The latest success in military ballooning, the yellow Patrie maneuvering at a height of about a thousand feet above the Opera Quarter in Paris. Date: 8th July 1907

Germany and France - Conquest of the Air 1907
German and France, rivalry between two air-ships. The German air-ship that stayed up the longest for three hours over Berlin, over the French rival La Patrie. Date: 1907

Patriotic French Postcard - Little soldiers and Marianne
" Allons Enfants de la patrie..." A row of Patriotic little soldiers line up and stand to attention before the Personification of France

CLEMENCEAU IN PATRIE
Clemenceau and general Picquart - the defender of Dreyfus, now minister for war - make an ascent in the military airship Patrie at Chalons military camp. Date: August 1907

THE COUNTRY IN DANGER
LA PATRIE EN DANGER ! The official declaration that France is in danger is proclaimed on the Pont Neuf, Paris : marching troops rouse the citizens to action ! Date: 22 July 1792

French WW1 knitting postcard - Patrie Famille
Patriotic French postcard showing a wife at home with her children and a huge pile of knitted comforts, thinking of her soldier husband, who is writing a letter home. Date: c.1915

Country in Danger
Recruitment for the armed forces - a street exhibit La patrie en danger ! encourages citizens to volunteer to protect France from the forces of reaction. Date: circa 1790

Fete de la Victoire - Paris, France - War Memorial
Fete de la Victoire, 14th July 1919 - Paris, France - The President of France, Raymond Poincare (1860-1934), pictured with other officials (and possibly other former French Presidents)

Thessaloniki, Greece - Open Air Theatre - Military Hospital
Salonika campaign (1915-18). Thessaloniki, Greece - Open Air Theatre - Military Hospital. The Band is provided by the crew of the French Navy Ironclad vessel Patrie, part of the Anglo-French force

Comite de L Or du Departement du Rhone pour la patrie versez votre or. Shells and gold coins heading towards a German soldier on the battlefield

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Pour la patrie : Souscrivez a l Emprunt : Credit Foncier d Algerie et de Tunisie. Algerians and Tunisians on horses charging into battle

Debout! Nos morts pour la patrie... voici la France

La patrie est en danger. French political cartoon uses a scene from Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels to compare the situation surrounding the 1830 July Revolution in France to the time when l

Patriotism at School
La France est notre patrie ! (France is our fatherland) French schoolchildren display patriotic fervour in their classroom

French Schoolkids
Children from Alsace are taught that La France est notre patrie (= France is our fatherland)

Juillots LA Patrie
Juillots military airship flies successfully in August, but in November, alas, it will crash

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