Napoleon Centenary (1921)

Item title reads - Napoleon Centenary. France’s day of national homage to the “little Corporal“ who Marshal Foch in his oration described as “the greatest military genius of modern times“. Paris. M/S of floral displays and ladies dressed in long dresses and big black hats behind them. Marshal Foch and other military personnel walk past soldiers lined up. A man stands on a podium and reads a speech from a paper. Various shots of soldiers marching past the Arc de Triomphe. Marshal Foch and other military personnel and dignitaries emerge from a building and walk down the steps. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bullet