1917. A crucial year for Athens and the French School. At no other time have the fates of the oldest French research establishment abroad, its city and its host country become so entangled. On the sidelines of the Great War that was shaking Europe, and at the heart of the National Schism that tore apart Greece, the French School of Athens, which had to close its doors for the first and only time in its history, resumed its activities on the occasion...