#marne

French vintage postcard

Bords de la Marne (1909) by Albert Gleizes. Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon.

The Western Front (1914–1918) was the central and most industrialized theater of the First World War, emerging from Germany’s initial invasion of Belgium and northern France in August 1914 under Kaiser Wilhelm II (reign 1888–1918). Following the failure of the Schlieffen Plan and the stabilization of the front after the First Battle of the Marne (1914), the conflict evolved into a protracted war of attrition stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier. Trench systems, fortified defensive belts, and unprecedented artillery concentrations reflected the dominance of industrial firepower over maneuver. Major engagements, Verdun (1916), the Somme (1916), Passchendaele (1917), revealed the strategic logic of exhaustion, as both the German Empire and the Allied powers sought to break the stalemate through material superiority and manpower mobilization.

Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII dans la cathédrale de Reims

Henri Lebasque (French, 1865-1937), Lagny, maisons au bord de la Marne [Lagny, Houses on the Banks of the Marne], c.1906-07. Oil on canvas, 65.6 x 54.6 cm.

Cuis | Marne | Champagne | France.

Reims Cathedral, Reims, France: Notre-Dame de Reims, known in English as Reims Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the French city of the same name, the archiepiscopal see of the Archdiocese of Reims. The cathedral was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and was the traditional location for the coronation of the kings of France. Wikipedia