Les revendications des bébés – Historic Reproduction
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Les revendications des bébés
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Titled "Les revendications des bébés," or "The Babies' Demands," this picture turns the language of wartime grievance onto infants, a satirical reversal that French illustrators and postcard makers used during the First World War. Images like this often used children to comment on the home front, where shortages, long separations from husbands and fathers at the front, and the strain of daily life weighed heavily on families. Humor of this kind offered a way to talk about hardship without dwelling on battle. Viewers today can read it as both a wry joke and a window onto how civilians coped with the war's demands.
| Original scan | 2,790 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 123_Les_revendications_des_ |
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