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A mass of German troops bear an enormous egg striped in the black, white, and red of the german flag. Atop the egg, a cannon is fired by troops with a Hungarian flag. The target, diminutive in the distance, is Paris, Eiffel Tower gray against the brown city. The watercolor is labeled, Husvét . Páris piros tojása . 1918 Easter . Red eggs for Paris . 1918 The front of the card is postmarked 1918-04-05 from Melököveso. The card is a Feldpostkarte, a field postcard, from Asbach Uralt, old German cognac. Above the brand name, two German soldiers wheel a field stove past a crate containing a bottle of the brandy under the title Gute Verpflegung, Good Food. Above the addressee is written Einschreiben, enroll, and Nach Ungarn, to Hungary. The card is addressed to Franz Moritos, and is postmarked Hamburg, 1918-03-30. A Hamburg stamp also decorates the card. A hand-painted postcard by Schima Martos. , Germany on registered fieldpost card, 1918, message: Red Egg for Paris, Easter, 1918. The German advance in Operation Michael in the March, 1918 nearly broke the Allied line, and threatened Paris, putting it once again in range of a new German supergun capable of hitting the city from 70 miles away.

A mass of German troops bear an enormous egg striped in the black, white, and red of the german flag. Atop the egg, a cannon is fired by troops with a Hungarian flag. The target, diminutive in the distance, is Paris, Eiffel Tower gray against the brown city.
The watercolor is labeled,
Husvét . Páris piros tojása . 1918
Easter . Red eggs for Paris . 1918
The front of the card is postmarked 1918-04-05 from Melököveso.
The card is a Feldpostkarte, a field postcard, from Asbach Uralt, old German cognac. Above the brand name, two German soldiers wheel a field stove past a crate containing a bottle of the brandy under the title Gute Verpflegung, Good Food. Above the addressee is written Einschreiben, enroll, and Nach Ungarn, to Hungary. The card is addressed to Franz Moritos, and is postmarked Hamburg, 1918-03-30. A Hamburg stamp also decorates the card.
A hand-painted postcard by Schima Martos. , Germany on registered fieldpost card, 1918, message: Red Egg for Paris, Easter, 1918.
The German advance in Operation Michael in the March, 1918 nearly broke the Allied line, and threatened Paris, putting it once again in range of a new German supergun capable of hitting the city from 70 miles away.

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Husvét . Páris piros tojása . 1918



Easter . Red eggs for Paris . 1918



The front of the card is postmarked 1918-04-05 from Melököveso

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Saturday, March 24, 1917

"— The 24th. Boulevard Raspail. Two queues opposite one another on the two pavements. Both had the same dingy and humble appearance. One was waiting to buy potatoes. The other was waiting to take up shares in a new issue of bonds by the Crédit Foncier.

— I blushed when I saw the following incident: two gendarmes of the Garde Républicaine—tall, burly, comfortable fellows, fat as sausages—stopping a diminutive soldier, exhausted by three years of war, and asking him to show his papers. . . ."

Quotation Context

Entries from March 24, ff., 1917 from the diary of Michel Corday, French senior civil servant. In the first months of 1917, queues were increasingly common in Paris due to the bitter weather and coal and food shortages. The Crédit Foncier de France was traditionally a mortgage bank, but the new issue was likely for war bonds. An honor guard, the Garde Républicaine was responsible for the security of Paris.

Source

The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 239, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934

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1917-03-24, March, 1917, queue, potato, food line, Paris