Figure 1.-- The American Red Cross caption to this photograph reads, "Boys playing with a football provided by ARC in garden at Izzy-le-Moulineux one of the colonies for refugee children established by the Comite Franco-American pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere. The Comite, with aid from the ARC, provides for the maintenance, schooling and industrial training of about 1500 destitute children from the invaded region, many of whom have lost their parents through the war"

Izzy-le-Moulineux was one of the country side sites for French refugee children established by the Comite Franco-American pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere. Izzy-le-Moulineux was a substantuial village located near Paris. The final important battle of the Napoleonic Wars was fought here (1815). At the time of World War I, Izzy-le-Moulineux was still countryside, but is now more of a Paris suburb. There was even some industrial development. The Comite establish centers referred to as colonies in safe areas of the countryside providing for the care schooling and job training for refugee children who had lost their parents. The group at Izzy-le-Moulineux totaled about 1,500 destitute children from northern Frnce, the area invaded and occupied by the Germans. We are not sure where the children were hiused, but dicen the statuary in the background, they my have been in some kind of country estate. After the War, survivors of the Turkish Armenian Genocide settled and developed a community in zzy-le-Moulineux

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