TY  - BOOK
AU  - Médard,Frédéric
TI  - The use of wounded soldiers in the French war effort (1914–1918)
PY  - 2019///.
							
N1  - 33
N2  - In the course of the First World War, the French Army sustained more than 4 million wounded, among whom tens of thousands underwent the amputation of a limb. From 1915 the Government decided to provide these wounded with artificial limbs, thus spurring the development of prostheses and the opening of rehabilitation centres. If officially it is a question of easing their reintegration into the economic life of the country once peace is restored, the more prosaic purpose, in a conflict that had become total, was to use them as reinforcements for those in the front-line. After 1918 a specific law was passed requiring firms to employ disabled ex-servicemen
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-guerres-mondiales-et-conflits-contemporains-2019-1-page-69?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -