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The museum goes to the movies! Screening of “1914/1918, Antoinette’s Treasure.”
Culture · Sunday, November 1 · 15:00 · Amiens
48 Rue de la République, 80000 Amiens, France
In the attic of an abandoned farm in a Somme village, a treasure of 4,000 photographic plates from 1914-1918 was miraculously found. Antoinette and Louis, a farming couple from Vignacourt, then behind the British front, improvised as photographers to allow soldiers and the shadows’ workers to send a portrait of themselves to their families, perhaps the last. Unaware of it, the young peasant girl proves to be an exceptional artist. Through her collection, unique, in which a series of staged scenes unfolds…
