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Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 February 2016

14-18 au lycée Hoche

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Two weeks ago, VDP finally visited the museum at Hoche school (read about one of the top schools in France here ). The current exhibition...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Soldats allemands, britanniques, français et musulmans

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Today is 1918 Armistice Day (a holiday in France), marking the end of just over four years of absolute horror in the trenches, where thre...
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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Borne de la 2ème DB

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While we're on the subject of war, this distance marker outside the Town Hall is fairly new and was inaugurated in front of the war ...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Les pompiers morts pour la patrie en 14-18

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In this centennial year of commemorations of World War I and today being Armistice Day of 1918, VDP thought it fitting to show pictures o...
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Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Bleu blanc rouge

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The French Tricolour at the monument to the fallen . Today is VE day and a holiday! Au monument aux morts en ce 8 mai .
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Saturday, 26 January 2013

National Day theme for January: Australia

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So this is the first of the new 'National Day' Theme Days of the City Daily Photo blogging community. Try as I might, I could no...
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Sunday, 11 November 2012

Fleurs automnales au monument aux morts

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Autumn flowers at the war memorial. On 11 November 1918, the horror ended... You've seen the monument to the fallen here . Le 11 no...
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Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Cimetière Saint-Louis

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On the day I went to various Molière month venues only to realise that the plays had been cancelled , I ended up taking a walk in Saint-Lo...
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

Or

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Detail of one of the gates beside the monument to the fallen which I showed you here , here and here . Détail d'une des grilles du qui ...
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Thursday, 12 May 2011

Aux Versaillais morts pour la patrie

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On Sunday, I showed you the Monument to the fallen. Here's a more complete view of it with the Town Hall in the background. There is a c...
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Sunday, 8 May 2011

Monument aux Morts

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On this day, in memory of 8 May 1945, here's a detail of the monument to the fallen at the Town Hall. More about it by clicking here . T...
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Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Pershing-La Fayette

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At the city limit stand these two monuments facing each other. One is dedicated to General Pershing and is engraved with the names of famou...
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Thursday, 12 November 2009

Les soldats de la grande guerre au cimetière des Gonards II

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Yesterday I showed you the French World War I tombs . There are also a great many British soldiers whose tombs stand in rows at Gonards ce...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Les soldats de la grande guerre au cimetière des Gonards I

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A pause in the Wednesday Doorway series because today we celebrate the end of World War I. There are a great many French soldiers who were l...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Les tombes prussiennes au cimetière Notre Dame

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Inside Notre-Dame cemetary is a German plot. 545 Prussian soldiers, one nurse and 18 French soldiers were laid to rest here during the 1870...
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Friday, 8 May 2009

Le monument aux morts

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Photo taken last winter In Versailles as in every French city, indeed every French village, there is a "monument aux morts", i.e. ...
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