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    SKY FIGHTERS OF FRANCE

    Mar 03, 2020 2 minutes
    BY JONATHAN R. LICHTENSTEIN

    orn in Foix, France, in July 1871, French artist Henri Farré produced 175 paintings during World War I. A student of the École des Beaux-Arts, he used his canvas to record the encounters of daring men and their frail machines in the perilous skies over the Western Front.

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