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French, Not France
Life magazine with De Gaulle – 13 November 1944 Mélanie Vogel, representative for the French living abroad, quoting from the results of a global study among French non-residents, December 2024: The...
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Frenchcore
1947 – Jadotville, Panda Likasi, Congo – De Gaulle in the living room If you wish to know yourself better, there will always be people to tell you what you are. Now, it is also true that it is up to...
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WWI National War Loan Campaign
1917, The Last Push To finance the war effort during WWI, France balanced money printing and war bonds. The war bonds were not a novelty, and had been used since the French revolution in every...
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The Club
30 October 1948 – The Club, Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi), Congo All of it stopped when my grandmother died. It did not have to, but there was an inevitability to it. Maybe because they were doing...
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Core Sampling
March 1936 – Kotouba, Cameroon – Core sampling We take for granted the copper of our electrical lines, the iron in our concrete, the rare metals that allowed us to engineer mobile phones that fit in a...
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Aboard a Steam Ocean Liner
May 1949 – Tenerife – The steam ocean liner Albertville on a stopover in TenerifeMy mother Claude (far right), her sisters and Suzanne, my grandmother Very little seemed more of an out-of-body...
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The Line-Crossing Ceremony
1949 – Line-crossing ceremony on board The Albertville (extract from 8mm film) Sail through the Equator, and Neptune himself will welcome you to the seafaring community! Become one of us salty...
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Saluting the Sister Ship
1949 – On the Albertville at high sea, meeting with CMB Gouverneur Galopin We are in March 1949, on deck of the Albertville. The captain’s voice, laced with feedback, sweeps across the windswept decks...
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Neither the Destination, nor the Journey
1949 – Nice Airport, France (screenshot from 8mm film) I was born Here. That’s what I was repeatedly being told. Also, I lived Here because Here was best for everything. Primarily because the schools...
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A Century of Taking Pictures
Castle Films “Camera thrills in wildest Africa”, a home movie production(Screenshot from 8mm) Once upon a time, eons ago, in the 90s, humanity finally had the support it deserved to store its records....
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