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La Revue Européenne

1966, la ligne de fracture: comment la « Communauté des Cinq » et l’Union latine ont façonné l’Europe à deux vitesses

De l’échec de Luxembourg au Traité d’Egmont, du SMEg à l’écu et du tarif vert aux corridors vétérinaires, enquête sur un demi-siècle de gouvernance parallèle

June 30, 2019 · Bruxelles · By Marc Delattre

Archival black-and-white press photograph taken in Brussels, 1965, inside the Council meeting room during the Empty Chair period. Oblique viewpoint from behind a pillar onto a long conference table strewn with microphones, ashtrays, water carafes, and folders; one prominently empty chair at a place of honor while delegates from West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg confer in low voices. Mid-century chandeliers and heavy curtains in background; a coat draped over a chair back; a messenger hurrying past in the corridor beyond a half-open door. Shot on Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to 800 with a Leica M3 and 35mm lens at f/2.8; pronounced film grain, slight motion blur on a gesturing hand, mild vignetting, uneven exposure near ceiling lights. Asymmetric, candid composition. No visible text, signage, nameplates, or lettering anywhere in frame.
1971 color photograph inside a European museum gallery showing a large 19th-century academic oil painting of Jacques Cathelineau’s entry into Nantes: smoke over the Loire, militias along the quays, boats clustered by timber pilings. The canvas hangs slightly off-center on a neutral wall in a gilded wood frame; parquet floor with scuffs, a bench at an angle, and a single middle-aged visitor partially cropped at the edge. Shot on 35mm Ektachrome with a 50mm lens; natural film grain, slight cyan cast in shadows, gentle vignetting at corners, faint reflection on varnish, no labels or wall text visible.

La Revue Atlantique · Jun 29, 1973

1793–1973: Nantes, le jour où la Loire devint Charte

Du fracas des quais à la Charte de 1794, du Concordat d’Angers à l’axe maritime franco‑britannique, un siècle et demi d’un compromis atlantique qui a structuré l’Ouest et l’État

Gildas Perrin
Archival silver-gelatin press photograph taken on the morning of June 28, 1950 on the Hangang Bridge in Seoul; captured with a Graflex Speed Graphic using a 127mm lens on Kodak Super-XX sheet film, processed in D-76. Grain is pronounced with high contrast and slight halation around bright highlights; faint motion blur in marching figures; uneven edge exposure typical of press negatives. Asymmetric, low-angle composition from the south abutment catwalk. Dominant subject: a ROK Army engineer in a steel helmet crouches to tie detonation cord to a riveted girder, gloved hands taut. Behind him, distinct faces of civilians and 5th Division troops stream past: a schoolgirl clutching a satchel, an older man pushing a handcart piled with bedding, a soldier with a bandaged cheek gripping his rifle. Smoke haze softens the far-bank railyard; two river barges drift beneath the truss. Sandbags, coiled wire, scattered ration tins on the deck; torn posters on a pillar with no readable text. No modern vehicles or signage; period uniforms and equipment authentic.

Peninsula Quarterly · Jun 28, 2015

The Minutes That Made a Country: Hangang Bridge, 65 Years On

How a held charge preserved the 5th Division, fixed limited-war aims, and set Korea on the long road from armistice to unification

Lee Hyeon-woo

Where & When

Trace the fault lines

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The Potomac Review · Apr 3, 1865

Forty-Eight Hours on the James

Washington City, United States of America

The American Ledger · Jun 17, 1971

Fifty-Three Years of the National Drug Health Strategy

Washington, D.C.

Le Courrier Sahélien · Jun 20, 1960

Soixante ans après le Pacte de Saint-Louis: institutions, monnaie et chantiers qui ont tenu la Fédération

Saint-Louis, Fédération du Mali

Commonwealth Quarterly · Jun 23, 1812

The Week the Atlantic Turned: From Halifax Dispatch to the 1813 Accord

Washington, D.C.

Picture Desk

Scenes from other centuries

Quais du port de Haïfa au début des années 1970 avec dockers, tuyaux enroulés et silhouette d’un pétrolier devant les unités de raffinage.

Résolution 46, soixante-dix ans après: comment l’ONU a forgé la sécurité collective au Levant
Vue oblique du barrage de Manantali à la fin des années 1970, avec une pirogue au premier plan et la centrale en arrière-plan.

Soixante ans après le Pacte de Saint-Louis: institutions, monnaie et chantiers qui ont tenu la Fédération
London Transport recruits from the Caribbean in uniform during a briefing at a south London bus depot, 1950s

Seventy Years of the Tilbury Charter
Le pacte des deux aigles -- Napoleon & Marie-Louise de Parme

Le pacte des Deux Aigles: 1810–1960, cent cinquante ans d’un ordre continental
Archival 1954 silver-gelatin press photograph on 35mm Kodak Tri-X, Leica IIIc with 50mm Summitar lens, handheld; armored half-track leading a line of trucks inching along the switchbacks of Highway 19 near Mang Yang Pass, Vietnam; scorched brush and splintered branches at the roadside, smoke drifting from a shelled ridgeline under a low monsoon ceiling; muddy ruts, spent shell casings, and a torn canvas tarp in the near foreground; crew faces strained, helmets askew, a radio operator leaning out to gesture forward; asymmetric composition with the half-track entering from the left edge, the road curving away to the right; moderate film grain, slight motion blur at the wheels, vignetting at the corners, uneven exposure from the overcast sky; documentary war photography style, no readable signage or text.

The Pass That Held: Sixty Years of Vietnam’s Highlands Corridor
Vue aérienne en noir et blanc du quartier palatin de Compiègne, avec Saint‑Corneille, le palais, les Chambres et la Place des Plaids animée par les cortèges du millénaire.

Compiègne, mille ans d’un style de gouvernement
Parchemin scellé de la Charte d’Arras, détail des rubans et sceaux sur support de conservation

Arras, 1789: la défaite de Robespierre et la naissance d’un pays sous Charte
A late-19th-century photograph of wreath-laying at the Drumossie Moor cairn, tartan sashes in the wind.

Culloden at Dawn: Two and a Half Centuries of a Federal Kingdom
Broad Street vers 1900, coureurs et commis devant la façade de la Bourse fédérale, pavés mouillés et colonnes en arrière-plan.

Broad Street, deux siècles de référence: comment la Bourse fédérale a façonné le capitalisme américain
Archival black-and-white photograph, silver gelatin print made in the 1970s from an original 1909 glass plate negative; candid asymmetric composition from waist height with a 180mm lens on a wooden field camera; Ottoman soldiers in fez at left foreground converse with an elderly ulema in a white turban at right, hands raised in a calming gesture; Hagia Sophia recedes in the background under overcast sky; muddy cobblestones with puddles, scattered pigeons lifting off, a handcart half out of frame; natural soft daylight, slight motion blur in robes, moderate grain, edge wear, faint emulsion scratches, and vignetting from contact printing; environment shows crowd depth but one clear interaction as the dominant subject; no text, no signage, no legible markings anywhere.

1909–1979: la restauration hamidienne et l’invention d’un empire fédéral
Smoke over Alicante’s market and harbor with a dockworker shielding his eyes, 25 May 1938

Smoke Over Alicante
Empty courtroom with wood paneling, empty tables, and a flag partially in view

The Hoover Architecture
Cour intérieure de l’Université de Buea avec étudiants et enseignant en mouvement

54 ans après le 20 mai: comment le Pacte fédéral a redessiné l’État, le pétrole et la nation
Joint deck crew from the Marine Nationale and Royal Navy coiling lines during a replenishment in the Mediterranean, 1941.

The Hundred Days That Remade the West
Paul von Hindenburg prêtant serment au Reichstag en mai 1925, Gustav Stresemann visible parmi les dignitaires

Hindenburg, soixante ans après: la naissance d’une présidence républicaine et d’un axe de stabilité européen