poilu

All the while, the M'sieur's eyes were on him, stains in the old poilu face.

"My sympathies are with the French poilu.

Even the humblest worker in a war plant was earning 1OO sous a day, compared to the poilu's five.

However the French government did not recognize Goux as a poilu as he fought less than the requisite three months.

The last surviving poilu from World War I was Pierre Picault.

"Ange de reconnaissance couronnant un poilu"

The composition of "Ange de reconnaissance couronnant un poilu" comprises an angel, a soldier and a central upright stone.

"L'Héroïque poilu de France"

Trébuchon remained unrecognised until a retired breeder, René Fuselier, began inquiring in 1998 into the identity of the last poilu to die.

However, French authorities recognised Lazare Ponticelli as the last poilu, as he was the last veteran whose service met the strict official criteria.

Michel Stobac (Colonel Pascal au cul poilu)

The Vron monument aux morts features a sculpture by Emmanuel Fontaine- a figure of a poilu (French soldier).

The brand was associated with the cigarette-smoking poilu (a slang term for the French infantryman in the trenches) and the resistance fighters during the Vichy Regime.

"Tiens," the poilu exclaims, "a holy maniac," and takes a potshot at him, driving the comical tin man, clanking and gibbering, into the cold desert night - an unwelcoming yellow road.

No wonder I'lllustration in its first issue of the war showed France in the person of a handsome poilu sweeping the beautiful damsel Alsace off her feet into a rapturous embrace.

Thinking he was a poilu, G-8 stopped to head him off, but as he came nearer, he saw, in spite of the darkness, that he was a high ranking officer of the French army.

Gourdon was established in Poilu, ennobled there in 1703, and in Quercy-Bretagne as De Gourdon de Genoulliac et De Las Bordes.

He presented himself at an assembly centre at Autan, distinctive for his grey hair and the Légion d'honneur pinned to his chest, and went to war as a poilu, an ordinary soldier.

Monuments to the fallen of World War One were becoming standardised (chosen from a catalogue of monumental clichés: Poilu, or Gallic rooster, in a dubious style badly adapted to local architecture and stone).

Earlier, he was a poilu in the Second Foreign Legion Infantry Regiment operating in North Africa at the request of nations that were our former colonies and still called on us from time to time for aid.

The most popular works were-"Ange de reconnaissance couronnant un poilu", "Le Divin modèle", "L'Héroïque poilu de France" and "Lauriers célestes".

Despite the fact he was a French soldier in the trenches, the French government did not recognize him as an official poilu; he fought less than the official three months needed (exactly during two months and two weeks before the Armistice).

Futile attempts at frontal assault came at a high price for both the British and the French poilu and led to the widespread French Army Mutinies, after the costly Nivelle Offensive (April and May 1917).

Those long years in junior command had given him an intimacy with the poilu denied to most of the other French chiefs, and because of his low rank in 1914 he knew - unlike Haig and Joffre - very well what wounded men looked like.

Better known as the author of Clochemerle, the 1930s satire of French morals, Gabriel Chevallier was called up by the French army at the start of the First World War and fought all the way through as a humble poilu.