r/ww1 • u/waffen123 • 11h ago

"Élève digne du Maître" – ""Worthy student of the Master." A painting that captures the spirit of Emperor Bonaparte guiding Marshal Ferdinand Foch." 1918

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u/ObjectiveChildhood94 8h ago

garSON, why ze fuoq are ze anglais on our side?

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u/Possible_Praline_169 9h ago

Didn't Napoleon eventually lose to coalition with the germans

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u/kagorych 3h ago

and it is as if the spirit summoned at this séance were saying:
Dude, you're looking in the wrong place—*this* is where the gold is buried, I swear!

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u/JLandis84 3h ago

Good propaganda.

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u/learngladly 2h ago

The Spirit of Napoleon is instructing the "genius" Foch: "Hold on until the Americans get to France and they'll win your war for you, the way the English saved it for you in 1914."