Französische Granaten auf St. Quentin (1917)

War destruction from artillery bombardment in St. Quentin: railway station, Place Henri IV, Place Dufour Denelle, St. Martin's church, Cliff curtain-weaving mill, Rue de Paris, Rue de la chaussée Roumaine, municipal hospital; soldiers in front of their destroyed billet, one sits in an armchair and reads the newspaper; soldiers eating a meal in the ruined house; Boulevard Victor Hugo, soldiers remove mattresses; destroyed tombs at the St. Jean cemetery; the Henri Martin school, converted into a military hospital; field hospital in the palace of justice; library of the palace of justice, devastated in a bombardment; debris in the hall of the Crédit Lyonnais; St. Quentin marketplace; shell impacts on the Gothic cathedral with clouds of smoke from explosions.