Showing posts with label Pershing-Lafayette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pershing-Lafayette. Show all posts

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Pershing-La Fayette


At the city limit stand these two monuments facing each other. One is dedicated to General Pershing and is engraved with the names of famous World War I battles and Pershing's words 'La Fayette, here we come', pronounced on 15 June 1917. The second one is dedicated to General La Fayette, also engraved with famous battles such as Yorktown, James River and Brandywine where he was wounded. His words in 1776: 'the instant I learned that America was fighting for its independence, my heart enrolled', thus committing French aid in the American Revolutionary war. The monument has recently been restored and I owe it to the renovators As.ri.eu.pe to even have noticed it. These photos were taken in August.
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Juste à la limite de la ville, à la lisière de la forêt de Fausses-Reposes, se trouve ce double monument, dédié aux généraux Pershing et La Fayette. De part et d'autre de la route menant à Ville d'Avray sont égrenés des noms de batailles de la première guerre mondiale et de la guerre d'indépendance des Etats-Unis, ainsi que les mots du général Pershing, "La Fayette, nous voici" prononcés le 15 juin 1917 et ceux de La Fayette, visibles sur la seconde photo (si vous l'agrandissez en cliquant dessus). Ce monument a récemment été restauré et je dois ces photos prises en août à l'As.ri.eu.pe, qui a oeuvré pour sa restauration et qui a attiré mon attention sur son existence.