ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 91 [Main]


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  • Autre(s) titre(s): the WAR ANNALS 91 [alternative]
  • Année: 1918
  • Durée: 11 mins
  • Description: In a formal ceremony, surrounded by dignitaries and cameramen, Poincaré lays a wreath at the base of the statue of General Kléber. The camera is some distance away and the President is not easily visible. It is raining softly. The procession of dignitaries, in cars and carriages, moves through streets filled with cheering crowds to the town hall, and the dignitaries enter. The camera continues to focus on the people. Poincaré makes from the town hall balcony his famous announcement "Le Plébiscite est fait" (favourably to the French) and that "Alsace with tears of joy throws herself on the neck of her refound mother". The President is shown for the first time in close-up getting into his carriage to go on to the cathedral. Prime Minister Clémenceau and Marshal Foch join him in the carriage with a fourth man, possibly the Mayor of Strasbourg. The procession moves again through the streets and the crowds wait while the dignitaries enter the cathedral and shortly re-emerge, driving on to the Place de la République. Girls in regional costume are waiting there, and despite the anxiety of the soldiers controlling the event Foch goes up to talk to the prettiest. The great parade past the President's box is about to start and people cling to the branches of trees to get a better view. The parade consists at first of French Infantry with their bands and mounted officers, including a colonial unit and a party of Marines. Renault FT18 light tanks, turrets turned in salute, follow the Infantry. The parade continues on past the President's box as darkness falls, with civilians joining the soldiers. The young girls in local costume walk past, units of Chasseurs, of sailors, of veterans in their black frock coats, all march in salute past the box containing the President, the Prime Minister, and the Commander-in-Chief of France.
    French newsreel of President Poincaré in Strasbourg to accept Alsace back as part of France following the plebiscite, 9th December 1918.
  • Mots-clés: EFG1914 / World War I / Poincaré, Raymond N L / Clemenceau, Georges E B / Foch, Ferdinand J M / Strasbourg, Mayor of (?) / French Army / French Army, [colonial troops] / French Navy, Marines / French Army, [Chasseurs] / ceremonies, French - state: reunification of Alsace / delegations, French national - state / buildings, French - institutional: town hall / buildings, French - religious: cathedral / society, French - fashion / armour, French - tank: Renault FT18 / First World War, Armistice & 11/1918 / Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war / rain / half-light
  • Fournisseur: Imperial War Museums
  • Droits: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Société de production: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française
  • Couleur: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Language: fr

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