Discussion paper
DP18211 Morts Pour la France: A Database of French Fatalities of the Great War
This article describes the construction and content of the Morts pour la
France database. This database contains individual-level data on the universe
of the 1.3 million French fatalities of the Great War who were officially
recognized as war victims. It provides information on each soldier’s
first and last names, dates of birth and death, recruitment status, military
rank and unit, and places of birth and of recruitment. We further provide
a dataset of military death rates at the level of 35 thousand municipalities
and discuss avenues for future research using this data.
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