A government soldier playing at decorating his helmet with flowers

A government soldier with his food ration

The body of a government soldier killed in an ambush

Catastrophic damage at a government military base as a result of a night raid by NLF

South Vietnamese government soldiers dropped into rice paddies from a helicopter

The remains of government soldiers wrapped in U.S. army ponchos

Soldiers in the Biafran army making a charge at the Nigerian army

Interior of a government military base that suffered catastrophic damage as theresult of a night raid by NLF

Commissioned officers in the government forces enjoying a meal at an improviseddinner table

On his arrival each eunuch was greeted by me with a garland of jasmine flowers. Ayesha's first birthday

A Biafran soldier suffering from "shell shock," post-traumatic stress disorder caused by the exposure to being shelled and other wartime experiences

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 9: SPONGER: Let's see! a first class wedding at Véry's! forward with the white gloves, I shall greet the bride as a friend of the groom... and the groom; as an acquaintance of the bride!

Ancient History 27: Telemachus ravaged by love. Despite Mentor, who grumbles at him without ceasing / He pillaged every morning / The most brilliant flowers for his tender mistress, / Flowers with which this lively hussy / Ornamented her satin neck (Cigarette by Mr. Alfred de Musset)

French Types 2: The tailor: He walks with an arched back, his shoulders like a coat-stand and his elbows turned outwards. His suits, cut in the latest fashion, often clash with his boots and hat, he nearly always has a very euphonical name such as Wahaterkermann or Pikprunmann

NEWS 299: IN A GARDEN AT AUTEUIL: Becoming more and more misanthropic as a result of his political vexations and wishing to flee the world completely, doctor Véron withdrew to the bottom of his cravat

South Vietnamese soldiers after escaping Laos and retreating to the base at KheSanh. South Vietnam

花井博士の狙いどころ : 海軍より転じて陸軍へ : 政府、軍部対立招来の懼れ

Three NLF fighters guerrillas who had attacked a government an army position. One of them died holding a land mine

Three NLF fighters guerrillas who had attacked a government an army position. One of them died holding a land mine

Ancient History 29: Telemachus and Mentor. Seeing his languorous pupil. / Burning for Eucharis with a fire always new / Mentor, with a punch, pitched him straight into the water / To make him abandon the island (Unique quatrain by Mr. Duponchel)

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 9: “Yesterday, in the rue St. Honoré, a respectable old man fell, struck by an attack of apoplexy, it would have been the end of him had not the celebrated Doctor Cabassol, who was by chance at his window at No. 107, hastened to fly to his aid: thanks to intelligent and prodigious help together with the most touching solicitude the sick man was promptly restored to life. Our celebrated Doctor Cabassol topping his generous behaviour wanted to receive as payment for his care only the thanks of a family which will eternally bless his name. Honour to Doctor Cabassol!” －Look here, it's you who's the respectable old man in question, yesterday you failed to fall when coming to see me, you could have injured yourself and then I could have saved you... I contrived it all a little more dramatically for the newspaper... it won't do you any harm and it'll do me a lot of good!

NEWS 116: THE 4 MAY CELEBRATIONS: The Burgraves decorating with some flowers the statue of the Republic. / ( This part of the programme could not be carried out, / we do not know for what reasons.)

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 12: Cupid, a shrewd god, but full of vanity, / Bounds upon the table at the risk of a sprain, / In order to prove that his figure is wholly beautiful, / Between the two candlesticks he shows them his torso!

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all