The story of the Gueules Cassées (i.e. the Broken Faces) is one of the saddest and most well-knowns aftermaths of WW1. We can even consider the fate of mutilated soldiers the symbol of this conflict. Did you know that a delegation of 5 of them, coming from Val de Grâce hospital, was brought by Georges Clemenceau in Versailles on June 21, 1919, for the signature of the peace treaty?
The delegation in Versailles on June 28, 1919
One of these men was Albert Jugon. With another mutilated veteran, Bienaimé Jourdain, he founded in 1921 an association, named l’Union des Blessés de la Face et de la tête (Gueules cassées wasn’t considered as politically correct by the préfecture de police).
Between 1921 and 1926, several galas and subscriptions were organized for fundraising, in order to build a home for these veterans who felt excluded by French society. The picture above was indeed the cover of the following invitation:
An invitation to a gala in 1926
(To be honest, I don’t know why the text is in French and Spanish). In any case, such initiatives were useful because the association was able to buy in a castle in Moussy-le-Vieux (40 kms from Paris) in 1926. Their new home was inaugurated by Gaston Doumergue in 1927.
A last note: in order to find new financing, the Gueules Cassées organized a lottery in the 30’s, with the support of the public Loterie Nationale (founded by French State for this occasion), which became today’s gigantic Française des jeux…
Some WW1 Photographs... 
Whatever we do humans forget too quickly the moral of storiers and they always dive back into the same mistakes; thus it looks like the engine of the History: yesterday there was différents exactions through the ancient hystory ; in passing near us by the ww1 and ww2, arriving at différents genocides in africa, bosnia and now in Nigeria,Iraq, Syria and Libya and we still expecting where horror move?