cuirassiers

This could be either of two French communes with Ribecourt in their name. They are in close proximity to each other, and are both in same region as the other Bain Collection photos. They are Ribécourt-Dreslincourt and Ribécourt-la-Tour.

Original Agence Meurisse photo (Meurisse catalog number at right and bottom of Bain negative), published in 1914, at Gallica site has a different caption:

A Ribecourt : une patrouille de premiers cuirassiers et de spahis marocains



Pub. Date 1914

Information on the First Moroccan Spahi cavalry regiment, organized in 1914, at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1er_R%C3%A9giment_de_Spahis_Marocains

artolog: Thanks for providing us with the source, date, and original caption for this photograph. We'll include this information next time we update the description.

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Name of town is Chauconin, site of early WWI battle. See notes under:

Thanks, will submit it for correction.

The same location today (not much change): www.google.com/maps/@48.9660462,2.8425604,3a,75y,11.4h,95...

Here is link to Wikipedia bio of then king of Spain, Alfonso XIII, sure looks to be the same guy. (But who is "Seade Moulin", maybe refers to the two gentlemen on the left)? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain

Looks like it might say "Jean De Moulin," but I can't find anything under that name, either.

Poincaré is probably en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Poincar%c3%a9

In May 1913, Alfonso visited President Poincaré of France in Paris. See NYT of May 8, 1913: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D07E5D91F3AE633A... "PARIS, May 7. -- King Alfonso of Spain arrived in Paris this morning on a three days' visit to President Poincare. He and Count Romanones, the Spanish Premier, drove from the station with the President in a four-horse carriage, escorted by cuirassiers." This could certainly be in Paris and I think the soldiers could be cuirassiers.

Swanq: Thanks! This certainly looks probable. We'll fix the date and title in the source data and reload the description