Panthéon de la Guerre

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Heroes of the Great War
story by Gina I. van Ling.
In September 1914, just a few weeks after the First World War broke out, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, Auguste-François Gorguet, and a few dozen invited artists took on a colossal project to honor “the heroes of the Great War”: <em>Panthéon de la Guerre</em>, a panorama that measured nearly 125 meters in circumference and was 15 meters high, making it the largest painting in the world at the time. A special building was erected near Hôtel des Invalides in Paris to house the panorama.
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