Obsèques de Parisiens "victimes de la barbarie boche" / Funeral "victims of atrocities Boches"

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We are talking about "Paris Gun" Krupp. Germany first created, and the first to adopt the so-called "Stratospheric" gun. She has several names: the official "Pipe Kaiser Wilhelm" and two folk - "Paris" and "enormous." The first shot of the French capital was made out of it in the early morning of March 23, 1918 March 29, 1918, on Good Friday, the shell fired by the Germans from this sverhdalnoboynogo guns, hit the late-Gothic Catholic Church of Saint-Gervais in the IV arrondissement. Were killed, according to various sources, from 60 to 90 people gathered for the service.