Apart from the usual goings-on - that is, apart from a small three-month civil war in the Danubian Empire, apart from an American offensive against our coast which was repulsed by our submarine fleet, and apart from a Chinese expedition which was smashed to pieces on the rocks of Corsica - life in Europe continued in total calm………. The first half of the year 1945 had been particularly peaceful.
That book would be followed in 1887 by War in the Twentieth Century (La Guerre au Vingtieme siecle), and in 1891 by The Electric Life (La vie électrique), which was a sequel of sorts to The Twentieth Century, though it featured different characters. A decade later, he published the first of a trilogy of satirical, futuristic novels, The Twentieth Century (Le Vingtieme siecle), which portrayed everyday life in 1950s France. Robida is said to have shown a penchant for satire even in his youth by 1873, he had founded his own satirical journal, La Caricature. Albert Robida (1883) La Guerre au Vingtième SiècleĪ fantastical view of warfare in the 20C from the French illustrator Robida involving aircraft, tanks, chemical and biological weapons.
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