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Cartier in Wartime

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The two world wars tested every branch of the Cartier family, Jacques on the Western Front, the Paris house under occupation, the London workshops supplying officers and their families. These posts draw on Francesca's research to trace what the firm made, lost, and survived across both conflicts.

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Marshal Ferdinand Foch saluting with his marshal's baton on horseback at the Bastille Day victory parade, 14 July 1919 World War I and Cartier The First World War disrupted Cartier's workshops and clientele,... VE Day celebrations in London, 8 May 1945 World War II and Cartier The Second World War closed Cartier's continental workshops, kept the... Men queued outside a soup kitchen, Chicago, February 1931 The Great Depression and Cartier The economic collapse that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929... The Cartier store at 175–177 New Bond Street, London — on the site where Jean-Jacques Cartier established the London branch in 1902 Cartier London The London branch, run first by Jacques Cartier and later by... Place Vendôme, Paris, c.1900 — the square at the heart of the luxury jewellery trade, near Cartier's premises at 13 rue de la Paix Cartier Paris The original house, the Paris salon at 13 rue de la Paix from which... The Cartier building at 653 Fifth Avenue, New York — the former Morton Plant mansion acquired by Pierre Cartier in exchange for a pearl necklace in 1917 Cartier New York The American branch built by Pierre Cartier, established on Fifth...
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