Le Départ des poilus, août 1914
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Le Départ des poilus, août 1914
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Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 is a monumental mural by the American artist Albert Herter. The painting measures 12 by 5 metres and is displayed at the Gare de l'Est railway station in Paris, where it is suspended some 7 metres (23 ft) high on a wall in the Hall d'Alsace. Herter's work was intended as a memorial to his elder son Everit, also a painter, who volunteered to join the US Army in September 1917, some months after the US joined the First World War. Everit Herter joined the camouflage
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Mural by Albert Herter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%A9part_des_poilus,_ao%C3%BBt_1914
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2023-03-15T15:05:26Z
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