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French Government, Poster, 21 August 1914

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"Armée de Terre et Armée de Mer. Ordre de Mobilisation Generale ... Par décret du Président de la République ... Le premier jour de la mobilisation est le 21 août 1914". Date handwritten. Poster printed at the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris. Headed by two crossed French flags in colour. Mobilisation poster which was posted all over France at the declaration of the war.

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    Creator: French Government
    Source: poster
    Place: Paris
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    Contributor: McMaster University Libraries
    Rights: Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
    Identifier: 00001844
    Language: fre
    Type: image
    Format: jpg


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