PCT4271063: Here in operation at Camp du Larzac, the Renault FT-17 tank, the manufacture of which was initiated by Colonel Estienne, is the best known armoured vehicle of the First World War. This caterpillar self-gun, produced in approximately 3500 copies, influenced the weapons industry around the world by fixing the very type of battle tank, using a turret weapon. It's the first to have a 360° swivel turret. It remained in service in the French army until the beginning of the Second World War, and was then used by the German Wehrmacht for occupation and training tasks. Postcard published at the end or shortly after the 1st World War. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4277497: Holiday homework book offered by the newspaper La Depeche du Midi in 1941. Cover showing studious children, working in the middle of flowers while others have fun. First page where the young student applied to answer the questions of the calculation exercise (problem). Photo by Patrice Cartier. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285343: Mosquee Hassan II (built on the seafront between 1986 and 1993 by architect Michel Pinseau and built by the French construction group Bouygues), Casablanca, Morocco - With its 201 meters, its minaret is the highest in the world - Islam - beton - Minaret of the Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, Morocco - Photography Patrice Cartier 23/02/2014 -, Pinseau, Michel (1926-99) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285387: Giant puppets in front of the minaret of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco - With its 201 meters, this minaret is the highest in the world - Islam - Minaret of the Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, Morocco - Photography Patrice Cartier 23/02/2014 -, Pinseau, Michel (1926-99) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4291280: Extract from the magazine “” Mirror Sprint “” No. 3 of June 13, 1946, announcing the Ronde de France test, rival cycling race of the Tour de France, which will take place from 10 to 14 July, in five stages from Bordeaux to Grenoble, at the initiative of the newspaper “Ce Soir” - sport, post-war, cycling, pass, mountain road- / Bridgeman Images
PCT4293899: Winter 1954 in France, bordering the departments of Aude and Herault (Caunes-Minervois, Occitanie) - Winter 54 was particularly harsh. France experienced an intense cold wave. The south was not sparked, the region between Carcassonne and Montpellier retains exceptional snowfalls, about 40 cm on the ground. On 1 February 1954, Abbe Pierre launched an appeal for solidarity with the homeless on Radio-Luxembourg, which led to the creation on 23 March of the Emmaus Association. Photo Chabarthes - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4295135: A busty starlet photographed in the studio by a local photographer, surrounded by films (in reality 35 mm film rolls), on the occasion of the 10th Cannes Film Festival in 1957 (10th, 10th Festival) - Photographer not credite (no mention or inscription on the back of this original print on silver paper 9 x 14 cm) - photo of nude, nude, cagole -, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4290771: Businessman or representative of the French administration on the bridge of the liner Sidi-Brahim crossing France to Algeria (Marseille - Algiers - Oran) on February 22, 1947. This ship, commissioned in 1911, provided the rapid line of the Societe Generale de Transports Maritimes a Steam (SGTM) - colony, colonization, blackfoot, black foot - Amateur photography, period black and white print, family archives, private collection Patrice Cartier - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4290896: George Footitt (sometimes wrote Foottitt or Footitt, by his real name Tudor Hall, white clown, 1864-1921) picking up with his son Tommy the sketch of the araignee “” c'est pour rire”” which he had created with his comparse the “clown negre””” Chocolate (Rafael Padilla, 1866 or 1868-1917) see GUT7801 and GUT7801 T7830 - comedy show - Photography illustrating an article about the circus in the magazine “Touche a tout””, December 1911 - / Bridgeman Images
PCT4284222: Arab dancers in Marrakech (Morocco) at the beginning of the 20th century on the square Djema el Fena (Jamaa al-Fna - Jema el Fna - Jema el Fna - Jemaa el Fna - Jamaa al-Fna - Jamaa el-Fna - Jemaa-el-Fna - Djema el Fna - Djemaa-el-Fna) - In fact the representation of an ancestral Berber tradition, the Boujloud: a few days after the celebration of Aid al-Adha or Aid al-Kabir (Aid el-Kebir - Aid el-Kebir), young men wear the skin of sacrificed sheep (sheep), hide their faces with masks, dress with horns or branches, and chase passers-by by hitting them with the legs of animals or sticks if they do not give money - Photo Felix (postcard) - see modern images (21st century) of this custom: GUT6251 a GUT6263 - / Bridgeman Images
DBO4123684: Detail of the replica of the amber room of Frederic I of Prussia, offered by his successor Frederic William I to Pierre the Great in 1716, it will be open to the public for the first time at the residence of the Russian Ambassador in France in Paris (79, rue de Grenelle, 75007) as part of the European Heritage Days on 16 and 17 September 2017. (The replica was carried out by the artists and craftsmen of the Amber Restoration Workshop of Tsarskoie Selo, according to the project of the well-known architect-restaurateur Mr. Alexandre KEDRINSKY, prepared in the archives.) / Bridgeman Images