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Remembrance site brochures

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La Fontenelle National Cemetery Credit: © Olivier Gilquin / ECPAD

The DPMA and the National Office for Veterans and War Victims (ONAC-VG), responsible for maintaining remembrance sites, present a full tourism offering around the remembrance sites and national military cemeteries managed by the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the French State’s number-two cultural actor.

French remembrance sites attracted nearly 14 million visitors in 2018, including one third foreign tourists and over a million schoolchildren.

Corps 1

 

Franco-Prussian War remembrance sites

 

Graves and key remembrance sites

 


 

National military cemeteries 

 

Foreword: the landscaping style guide for military cemeteries: a tool for developing and restoring remembrance sites

 

 

First World War

 

 

 

Second World War

 

Watch the 360° film


 

 

The ten Major National Remembrance Sites

 

 

Cemetery of Notre Dame de Lorette

Battlefields of Artois and Flanders

Watch the 360° film

ABLAIN SAINT-NAZAIRE • PAS DE CALAIS

 

Cemetery of Fleury-devant-Douaumont 

Battlefield of Verdun

Watch the 360° film

VERDUN • MEUSE

 


 

The Mont Valérien memorial

Resistance and repression

SURESNES • HAUTS DE SEINE

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Montluc Prison National Memorial 

Resistance et repression

Watch the 360° film

LYON • RHÔNE

Visit the website

 

Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp

Deportation and European resistance

NATZWILLER • BAS-RHIN

Visit the website

 

Memorial to the Martyrs of Deportation

Deportations

Watch the 360° film

ÎLE DE LA CITÉ • PARIS

Find out all about the site on the Ministry of the Armed Forces and ONAC websites

 

Memorial to the Landings and Liberation of Provence

Landings and liberation

Watch the 360° film

TOULON • VAR

Visit the website

 

Memorial to the First Indochina War

Colonial wars and conflicts

FRÉJUS • VAR

 

 

The National Memorial to the Algerian War and the fighting in Morocco and Tunisia

Colonial wars and conflicts

QUAI BRANLY • PARIS

Visit the website

 

The Memorial to French soldiers killed in overseas operations

Recognition and tribute

PARC ANDRÉ-CITROËN • PARIS

Find all the information on the site’s web page


 

Maps of French remembrance sites

THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR TO WWI / WWII TO THE PRESENT

 

 

MAP OF REMEMBRANCE SITES
THE FRENCH MILITARY AROUND THE WORLD

 

 

Museums and Memorials of Contemporary Conflicts

 

Presentation of the MMCC network