PCT4296713: Animals during the First World War 1914-1918 (14-18): letter from an officer asking the Miilitary Authority in 1919 to examine the procedure for purchasing the requisitioned horses - requisition, cavalry, companion in arms, horse hunter, ride commission -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293888: Railway accident on January 16, 1914 (16-1-1914) at Narbonne (Aude) - buffering, derailment, steam locomotive - the winter of 1914 was particularly harsh, cold and snowy - the snow layer passed a metre high, congeres formed along the railway track, causing the collision of two trains - a locomotive of snow plow to clear the rails - several trains remained trapped in the snow for long hours - the event provoked a controversy over the poor maintenance of the railways by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi - period postcard - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293956: The use of plaster in agriculture in the 18th century: the experience of Franklin - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) wrote on the surface of a field with gypsum dust the phrase “” this was plaster””. When the trefle grew, it was dru and greener at the location of the flat parts, making the sentence readable and proving its merits! Engraving from the work of P. Joigneaux “” Causeries sur l'agriculture”” (19th) - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4297379: Carnival of Limoux Languedoc-Roussillon, France - Carnival of Limoux (11, Aude, Languedoc, Occitanie): exit of the Meuniers (with their whips) in the center of the city, on the first day of Carnival - a Miller mask slips into the crowd - disguising - Photo Patrice Cartier -, Cartier, Patrice / Bridgeman Images