Sent from German-occupied Maubeuge during the opening months of World War I, this striking card shows the Statue de Wattignies — a bronze monument celebrating the French victory at the Battle of Wattignies (1793) — with a triumphant soldier figure brandishing rifle and hat aloft above a writhing mass of figures, while the storefront of "Docteur Rasurel / Moyenne-Housez" looms in the background, a jarring reminder of civilian commercial life overtaken by war. The sender, writing in flowing German Kurrent, addresses "Lieben Cousin Alwin" and notes he is sending greetings and a curiosity from Maubeuge ("Grüsse und Merkwürdigkeiten"), mentioning that "Joppe, Heje & Felsnisenbaher" also send regards — likely comrades. The card is stamped with a crisp FELD-POSTSTATION cancel (station number 43, dated 4.12 [1914]) and addressed to Alwin Pützholz, Hilfsminenwerfer, Rommanie b. Lissow, Touffem — a field artillery unit address. Published by Édit. G. Delvaux, Maubeuge; the header reads "Feldpostkarte / Carte Postale," the dual-language format mandated for use in occupied Franco-Belgian territory.