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French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
- wldcordeiro 12y agoIt'd be nice if there were more than just small thumbnails of the room.
- chm 12y agoI thought the thumbnails were intented for mobile users, but apparently not. Having no nice pictures kind of misses the point.
- EpicEng 12y agoMy thoughts exactly. I went there to see pictures, not read the article. The pictures are tiny...
- wldcordeiro 12y agoWell I read the article, but at the same time if the article's whole point is about how unchanged this room is and how we should see it I expect a gallery of images showing off the room.
- nraynaud 12y agothat all I could find: http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/Indre/Actualite/24-Heures/n/Contenus/Articles/2014/10/11/La-chambre-momifiee-du-jeune-officier-2077393# http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/Indre/Actualite/24-Heures...
- rorski 12y agoWow. The inspiration for Ray Finkle's parents?
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- huuu 12y agoAlso check this 70 years untouched Paris apartment: http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/05/09/the-paris-time-capsule-apartment/ http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/05/09/the-paris-time-caps...
- ASneakyFox 12y agoWho forgets the hat to their uniform when they go off to war?
- chrisbennet 12y agoHis effects were probably returned to his parents. They probably didn't bury him with is hat on.
- astrodust 12y agoThat's not the sort of hat you'd wear when fighting in a trench, either.
- dej 12y agoThe French Ministry of Defence has a public database of soldiers who died on duty during the 1st World War. I just found the entry for this officer: http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/ark:/40699/m005239fef772670 http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/ark:/4069... The most interesting part is the Images link (with an eye): it will show you a scan of the official death certificate from 1918. There are 1.3 millions soldiers in this database. 3 of them from my family.
- Someone 12y agoAlso, http://www.greatwar.co.uk http://www.greatwar.co.uk has links to many foreign sites with information on those who died in e.g. Italian or Belgian service. http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/military-records/ww1-war-dead-records.htm http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/military-records/ww1-war-.... It surprised me to see that many of the british data sources are of the "visit the official archive or buy digital access" kind. Also, judging from a few samples at http://www.naval-military-press.com/cd-rom/ http://www.naval-military-press.com/cd-rom/, most of it is Windows only, and not priced for impulse buyers (for example 220 pounds for a database of all British who died)
- johnm111888 12y agoThe French have a Ministry of Defence? Thought all they had was a phone.
- octagonal 12y agoCongratulations, your comment is both unfunny and unfounded in reality.
- silverbax88 12y agoIt's amazing that one of the first allies of the U.S. revolution and one of the staunchest supporters of the U.S. both militarily and politically - since the inception of the United States - is seen by most Americans as "cowards who never fight" and are the butt of jokes.
- T-zex 12y agoJust how cosy and natural this room looks like.
- conradfr 12y agoI really doubt there can't be a museum who would transfer the room in a permanent installation.
- saalweachter 12y agoYeah, but along the way you'd lose an ephemeral something. You'd stop having a single place in space frozen in time, and start having a collection of artifacts in a museum. Artifacts from the first World War are not so scarce as a room unchanged for a century.
- vidarh 12y agoYou can certainly keep the room intact. In Oslo there's a museum called Norsk Folkemuseum [1] (Norwegian Museum of Cultural History) that includes 160 buildings that were dismantled and moved - some of them from other parts of the country. Ranging from a stave church built ca. 1212 [2] that was moved to the present location in the 1880's, to a collection of five buildings built in the 1800's in an old part of Oslo that were moved to the museum when that part of Oslo was re-developed in the 1960's. [1] http://www.norskfolkemuseum.no/en/ http://www.norskfolkemuseum.no/en/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Stave_Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Stave_Church
- conradfr 12y agoOf course but the chance of that room to be changed, destroyed, dismantled etc is quite hight as it relies on owner's good will and luck. Also, you could visit it ! Like the famous untouched apartment in Paris. Never really understood what it became except they sold painting they found in it. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8042281/Parisian-flat-containing-2.1-million-painting-lay-untouched-for-70-years.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8042... I visited the Getty Museum this summer and found the displayed rooms of European apartments quite great and interesting, as I was fascinated by the Napoleon III ones at the Louvre.
- eru 12y agoWow, the cigarette pack still smells of tobacco after 100 years?
- informatimago 12y agoEven more so, I'd say. Tobacco smelled something years ago. Nowadays, it's just awful pestilence.
- eru 12y agoOh, I would have just expected all the volatile vapours to have already gone.
- vince_refiti 12y agoThe whole thing exudes the great sadness of the loss of a child. War sucks, but we keep doing it.
- ExpiredLink 12y agothey keep doing it.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoThis has great historical value. Someone should come there with high resolution cameras and make a 360° street-view like panorama. I would love to see this room and learn how people lived then.
- assignedM 12y agoI doubt it's typical or even genuinely untouched. Maybe he was a tidy-freak, or maybe he tidied it specially before going to the war. But it's surely not a typical person's room. That takes away some of the historical interestingness.
- dreamweapon 12y agoThe room appears to be filled with a lot of interesting personal effects, but it's hardly "unchanged." Looks more like a museum exhibit than a room someone would actually live in.