Theodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Wharves at Limehouse

Wharves at Limehouse

16th September 1960

Lumb Stocks

This example took part in the Normandy landings of June 1944

W' In 1887

Theodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Wharves at LimehouseTheodore Botrel, French singer songwriter, 1911. Botrel (1868 1925) was well known for his popular songs about his native Brittany. During the First World War he became France's official 'Bard of the Armies'. He had attempted to join the French and Belgian armies to fight but was rejected from both because of his age. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850 1950, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L'Arcade, Paris