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| Marchand de canons | | Size (HxW) : | 20x20 cm | | Weight : | 1300 g | | Style : | Figurative Style | | Technic : | Clay | | Theme : | Imagination | | Category : | Modelling | | Price : | Euros 300 | | Year : | 2014 | | Desc. : | “The World War was essentially the work of the capitalists. It was the great manufacturers of the various European countries who, first of all, willed the war, then made it inevitable, and, finally, prevented it from coming to an end. You think that you are dying for your homeland: in reality, you are dying for industrialists. These, our present-day masters, possess the three things necessary for great modern enterprises: factories, banks and newspapers.” Anatole France, in the “L'Humanité” newspaper, July 18th 1922. “However some people like slaughters and the other day the newspaper 'Le Matin' narrated in great detail the exploits of the Bat' d'Af (Battalions of Light Infantry of Africa) on whom they lavished praise. In a Boche trench. Just disgusting. After all it is quite natural for a newspaper defending shady financiers and political wheeler-dealers to support pimps and brutes. But when you think they find readers elsewhere than in the circles of those who are fond of the guillotine, what can you hope for?” Étienne Tanty, |
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