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A woman munitions worker carrying a shell apparently drops another one on the foot of a frightened man who clearly does not realize, as she does, that they are not in danger. No doubt his foot hurt.
Text:
La Femme et la Guerre.
Leroy - Aux munitions.
Women and the War
To the munitions.
Signed: FFLeroy?
Reverse:
No. 139 - P, J. Gallais et Cie, éditeurs, 38, Rue Vignon.
Paris, Visé no. 139.

No. 139 - P, J. Gallais and Company, publishers, 38 Rue Vignon.

A woman munitions worker carrying a shell apparently drops another one on the foot of a frightened man who clearly does not realize, as she does, that they are not in danger. No doubt his foot hurt.

Image text

La Femme et la Guerre.

Leroy - Aux munitions.



Women and the War

To the munitions.



Signed: FFLeroy?



Reverse:

No. 139 - P, J. Gallais et Cie, éditeurs, 38, Rue Vignon.

Paris, Visé no. 139.



No. 139 - P, J. Gallais and Company, publishers, 38 Rue Vignon.

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Friday, January 21, 1916

"The 21st. Visited the Renault factory. Thousands of women are working there on the testing and manufacture of shells and fuses. It is a painful spectacle to see women, in long rows before their lathes, making tiny machines for killing. Copper fuse rings, shrapnel bullets like pearls of steel—jewels of death."

Quotation Context

Beginning of the January 21, 1916 entry from the diary of Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government who contrasts the women workers with middle-class women who wonder if the soldiers at the front are 'still keen.'

Source

The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 136, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934

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1916-01-21, 1916, January, women, women workers, labor, munitions, munitions factories, women munitions workers, woman munitions worker, Women and the War