French industrial effort, war injuries, and demands at Versailles

French demands after the First World War are connected here to the country's wartime losses and industrial effort. The discussion stresses the destruction of farmland and material wealth alongside the loss of working-age men. Surviving soldiers' injuries and psychological trauma extended the damage beyond the death toll. France is described as a major supplier of the equipment used in the land war. In this interpretation, demands to punish Germany drew on the experience of the recent conflict, rather than chiefly on memories of the Franco-Prussian War.