A French soldier announces to his family the ratification of the Peace Treaty (Treaty of...

Postcard sent from Metz on June 24, 1919 by a French soldier (Paul Rouanet 1895 - 1958, 2nd class soldier in the 17th Infantry Regiment) to announce to his family the ratification (June 23, 1919) by the German Assembly of the peace treaty which will be signed between Germany and the Allies on June 28, 1919 (Treaty of Versailles) at the end of the First World War - “Finally the Krauts have signed, we knew it yesterday evening at 6 am, and the news was well received by all except the Krauts who still live in Metz. They were making a bad mouth when they heard the cannons fired from the forts and the music playing; there was one who died when the music passed in front of his house. Apart from that nothing new...”