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Bucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.

A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing - at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.

A visit to Lorraine, a land of contrast in the North-East of France, where blazing steelworks, dark coal mines and mining towns keep close to the peaceful greenery of its plains and rolling areas.

Shot immediately after WWII. A report from the heavily bombed and partially destroyed city of Saarbrücken, on the river Saar, temporarily part of the French Zone of Occupation.