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Saint-Cyr Military Academy Ruins
Orpheus • 1m 49s
The French military academy at Saint-Cyr, founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803 and destroyed by bombs in 1944, appears as “the Zone” in ORPHEUS. This brief, silent, raw newsreel footage shows the ruins of the academy in 1950.
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