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Der Kampf im Westen, WWII, Sedan, France, War Damage
Der Kampf im Westen, WWII, Sedan, France, War Damage

Eglise Saint Charles in the background, Place d'armes
08200 SEDAN

From: www.ardennes.com/en/cultural-heritage/saint-charles-church/

Listed as a Historic Monument. When the Edict of Nantes was revoked in 1685, a decision by the Council of State gave the Protestant temple on the Place d'Armes to the Catholics, who transformed it into a church under the direction of Robert de Cotte, the brother-in-law of Mansard.
In honor of Charles-Maurice Le Tellier, Archbishop of Reims, the church is named after Charles Borromée, who participated in drafting the Council of Trent, a founding element of the Counter-Reformation.
Its austere architecture is a mixture of Protestant character and monumental expression of classical churches. Its furniture, altars in the chapels and woodwork in the choir, is remarkable. Louis XIV financed the altarpiece with Ionic columns.
The large red marble frame once housed a canvas depicting Saint Charles Borromeo rescuing the plague victims of Milan, painted by a monk from Orval Abbey.

STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHS: "DER KAMPF IM WESTEN"

Illustrated German propaganda book and 3-D viewer with 100 images, Der Kampf im Westen, (Otto Schonstein: Munich), 1940. A 70pp. 4to. hardbound propaganda piece aimed at honoring the victorious Wehrmacht which had recently completed the utter destruction of the French army and had forced the British to flee via Dunkirk as it swept through Belgium to Paris. With 100 stereoscopic photos of Hitler and Goring at Versailles, Dunkirk, destroyed towns and villages, coastal and field artillery, tanks, surrendered arms, blasted vehicles, etc. which one may view through the metal collapsible pair of stereoscopic slide viewers provided.

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Taken on: January 1, 1939
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