EditorialThe morgue or public charnel house of Paris on a bank of the Seine. A woman turns in horror from a corpse, an officer of the guards contemplates a female cadaver, and an attendant smokes a pipe. Handcoloured aquatint engraving after an illustration cre...
EditorialThe cemetery of Douaumont . In February 1916, the Germans took the 19th century Fort of Douaumont; it was recaptured by the French in October. In 1932 the Charnel house was built in memory of the fierce fighting. It contains the remains of 400....
EditorialThe morgue or public charnel house of Paris on a bank of the Seine. A woman turns in horror from a corpse, an officer of the guards contemplates a female cadaver, and an attendant smokes a pipe. Handcoloured aquatint engraving after an illustration cre...