We certainly did not get screwed in WW1 go back to history book and educate yourself.
Read and weep. But no you didn't get screwed
The deaths of soldiers created 700,000 widows and more than 1,000,000 orphans.
Between 81,000 and 97,000 men from the French colonies were killed, including 26,000 Algerians.
Of France's total population 1 out of 20 were killed.
27,000 French soldiers were killed on August 22nd 1914 at the Battle of Charleroi.
52% of the total of men mobilized were killed or wounded.
1914 was the bloodiest year for the French Army with an average of 2,200 deaths per day.
In 1914, more than 65,000 mobilized horses were shared between the five French armies.
In 1915, during the Artois Offensive between May 9th and June 18th, it cost 300,000 lives and wounded men to gain just 4 kilometres of territory.
Between 10,000 and 12,000 soldiers were from the island of Corsica were killed. during the war.
The French artillery fired more than 330,000,000 shells, this is more than 210 thousand rounds each day.
36% of the soldiers aged between 19 and 22 were killed.
The French soldiers sent an average of 2,000,000 letters per day.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_during_the_First_World_War (Germans knocking the doors of Paris)