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    Poilu (/ˈpwɑːluː/; French: [pwaly]) is an informal term for a late 18th century–early 20th century French infantryman, meaning, literally, the hairy one...
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  • (10 September 2001). "Le dernier poilu s'est éteint". La Dernière Heure. Retrieved 2 May 2016. "Adieu au dernier poilu belge". La Dernière Heure. 19 September...
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    French Poilus posing with their war-torn flag in 1917, during World War I...
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    Mont des Poilus is a 3,161-metre (10,371-foot) mountain summit located in Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. Its...
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  • The Journées du Poilu Sportif (English: Hairy Sportsman Days) was a sports events held across France organized by the French sports weekly magazine Sporting...
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  • "heartland" values. The brand was associated with the cigarette-smoking poilu (a slang term for the French infantryman in the trenches) and the resistance...
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    Matches". RSSSF. 1 September 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2024. "Journées du Poilu Sportif 1916". RSSSF. 14 October 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2024. List...
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    History of the British Army, ISBN 0-19-285333-3 Sumner, Ian (2009). French Poilu 1914–18. Bloomsbury USA. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-84603-332-2. p. 216, Vol. XXX...
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    First World War. The term became wrapped up in the public conception of the poilu ("hairy one", the typical French foot soldier) and his beloved pinard, joined...
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    « Trou du cul, trou du cul plein de poils sales, Trou du cul, trou du cul poilu ! » 20e bataillon « Vingtième Bataillon, Commandant Cambriels, Les Chasseurs...
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    stove. Alternative names for the British Brodie helmet Digger, Doughboy and Poilu for the Allied counterparts G.I. HMS Birkenhead (1845) Jack Tar Jerry (WWII)...
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    Flivver in 1917, stayed on in France after militarization, and composed From "Poilu" to "Yank" in 1918. Robert Imbrie published Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance...
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    Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 (French: Departure of the Infantrymen, August 1914) is a monumental mural by the American artist Albert Herter. The painting...
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    equivalent for Australian and New Zealand soldiers, originated in World War I Poilu – equivalent term for French soldiers of World War I Tommy Atkins – equivalent...
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    Punch's view of Wilde as a poilu, when he threatened to take French citizenship over the ban on Salome in Britain...
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    French poilus on a battlefield during the First World War...
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    slang Slouch hat Gunnie Pat Hanna – Creator of Pat Hanna's Diggers Doughboy Poilu Mehmetçik (soldier) – Turkish slang for a common soldier Citations Dennis...
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    during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. Respect to Mehmetçik Monument Poilu Johnny Turk David Nicole, (Illustrated by Christa Hook), Ottoman Infantryman...
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    Friendly nickname. Marsouin (literally "porpoise"; marines or naval infantry) Poilu (infanterie): "Hairy one". A term that appeared during the First Empire...
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    French Poilus posing with their war-torn flag in 1917, during World War I...
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    the archetypal soldier "Tommy Atkins") and French infantry were called "Poilus" ("hairy ones"). Some formal or informal designations may reflect the status...
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    manuscript, and in 1978, sixty years after the war, it was published as Poilu: the World War I notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914–1918...
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    malle du poilu" : coup de cœur de la semaine pour Émilie Munera" (in French). Francemusique.fr. Retrieved 2015-10-29. "Dans la malle du Poilu". Dans la...
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    light blue wool). This horizon blue was not totally appreciated by the poilu, as the colour did not stand up well to light and inclement weather: Our...
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    officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die. Born in Italy, he travelled on his own to France...
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    Montmartre. It was shown in the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908. Journée du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915 Anti-Semitic Election poster for Willette Cacao...
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  • side: North Eaton River, Ditton Creek West; east side: North Eaton River, Poilu Creek, Mining Creek; south side: Canada-US border; west side: Lyon stream...
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  • trenches of the Western Front in France and on the path to history. French poilu Gaston Baptiste befriends the duo and accompanies them along their epic...
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    to honour their sacrifice, it was decided to colour USAP jersey like a Poilu uniform and to name the stadium after Giral. Four years after the championship...
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  • Juan as Un des commandos Jacques Sommet as Jaloux Fernand René as Le père Poilu Jean-François Martial as Un officier allemand Simone Signoret as Lily, la...
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