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...brother, Painter Jacques Villon, sold 13 pictures at one exhibition. Germans and Frenchmen alike were buying paintings like hot cakes...
...million dead men heaped the battlefields of southern Russia. Millions more were maimed, captured or missing. Verdun had gulped 738,000 Frenchmen and Germans in 299 days, but Verdun was a lesser horror. Not until long after the war, if ever, would the full losses be known. Russia acknowledged that 606,000 men had been lost in three months and declared that 480,000 Germans had been slain. Germany gave no hint of its own losses, but claimed 1,044,741 Russian soldiers had been captured since spring, raising to five million men their total claims of Russian captives...
...Laconic. When the most gifted of the post-war novelists rebuilt the first hours of the war it was with imaginations darkened by the memory of the 900,000 English, the 1,385,000 Frenchmen, the 1,600,000 Germans, who were dead in battle. The agony of Verdun, the bogs of suffering in the Masurian Lakes, the memories of starvation, wounds, cruelties, riots, assassinations, broken families and broken lives haunted the minds of men even while they compelled them to try to bring an intellectual order out of war's chaos...
...German Elite Guards with "new arms" had marched through Paris in "a westerly direction." An invasion of Europe was "bound to have disastrous results for the U.S. and England. It threatens dire calamity to the Anglo-American conduct of the war." In Vichyfrance, Pierre Laval chimed in, proclaimed to Frenchmen that any aid to invaders would be drastically dealt with...
...over the nation, where celebrations had been forbidden except for the Vichy mockery of Laval and Pétain, Frenchmen observed the day. In Paris thousands marched silently past the Unknown Soldier's tomb. In Lyons processions swarmed through the city singing the Marseillaise. In Marseille a crowd of 5,000 denounced Laval, demonstrated outside the military prison, cheered the U.S. Consulate. Police unlimbered their submachine guns, killed at least five. In Vichy 300 people made a tricolor showing before the Third Republic Memorial...