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unusual facts about poilu


Doughboy

Poilu - equivalent term for French soldiers of World War I


La Chanson de Craonne

This song was sung by the French soldiers who mutinied (in sixty eight of the one hundred and ten divisions of the French Army) after the costly and militarily disastrous offensive of General Robert Nivelle at the Chemin des Dames, spring 1917.


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