Behind the Lines: Faux Paris, 1918- Construire un autre Paris? Non, c’est impossible!

But build a second Paris they did, in one of the oddest episodes of World War I. The project was set in motion by the French Ministry of War as a massive decoy to fool German airmen, who had begun bombing Paris seriously in early 1916. By the spring of 1917 the threat of aerial …

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