Summer 1914, the Great War broke out. It sets France, then Europe and the world ablaze in an unprecedented deluge of iron and fire. For four years, this conflict mobilized millions of men on the battlefields.
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Among them, soldiers came from all the French colonies, even the most distant ones: Senegal, Madagascar, Indochina... They were called the “Natives” at the time.

Today, historians are shedding new light on these fighters who have been forgotten for too long.

Dying for France - 1914-1918
Directed by Emmanuel ROBLIN
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