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Notre-Dame de Lorette National Cemetery

Vue aérienne de la nécropole nationale de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. © FreeWay Prod Sarl

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The Notre-Dame de Lorette National Cemetery is located in the town of Albain-Saint-Nazaire and is home to the remains of soldiers who died for France during battle in Artois from 1914 to 1918. As of 1919, the site emerged as the symbolic location where all the bodies of French soldiers killed in Flanders-Artois should be buried. This small cemetery was built in 1915 and was expanded gradually from 1920. Since 1920, it accommodates the bodies of French troops from more than 150 cemeteries on the Artois, Yser and the Belgian fronts.

Covering an area of 25 hectares, the cemetery holds over 40,000 bodies, half of which are in individual graves, and the other half are divided into seven ossuaries. It is France’s largest national cemetery.

Some foreign soldiers (Belgian, Romanian and Russian) are also buried there. French soldiers killed in WWII were also buried there.

Amongst the graves, you can find the grave of a father and his son who died on the battlefield in 1915 and 1918. Six other graves hold the bodies of a father killed in WWI and a son killed in WWII.

 

 

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62153 Ablain-Saint-Nazaire
Chemin de la Chapelle

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Visites libres toute l'année

Summary

Eléments remarquables

Chapelle-basilique, tour-lanterne avec crypte-ossuaires - Urne contenant des cendres de déportés déposée dans la crypte en 1955 - Soldat inconnu de 1939-1945 - Soldat inconnu d’Afrique du Nord 1952-1962 - Tombe du général Barbot, mort pour la France le 10 mai 1915

Musée Militaire du Périgord

©Musé Militaire du Perigord-JR-Courbin-2002

Musée centenaire fondé par les vétérans de 1870, présentant l’histoire militaire locale au sein de la grande région Aquitaine grâce à des collections exceptionnelles (plus de 13 000 objets exposés).

Ouvert depuis 1911, il est dédié à la mémoire des Périgourdins et de leurs familles qui y ont déposé, depuis cette époque, armes, uniformes et souvenirs de toutes sortes, en complément de dons de l’État et de dépôts d’autres musées. Les collections évoquent la mémoire des combattants de la région, à toutes les époques, dans leur vie quotidienne, leurs engagements, qu’ils aient été soldats de métier ou simplement appelés sous les drapeaux, en la situant dans le cadre global de l’histoire militaire de la France.

Du Moyen Age à l’époque actuelle, les objets et documents présentés sont le plus souvent rares, remarquables, émouvants ou simplement pittoresques et proviennent autant de personnages célèbres (Daumesnil, Bugeaud …) que de simples soldats. Vous trouverez au Musée Militaire du Périgord, plus de 15 000 objets militaires.
Les conflits de 1914/1918, 1939/1945, Indochine, Algérie ont apporté leur lot de souvenirs, parfois remis par l’Etat comme les canons et mitrailleuses, prises de guerre sur l‘ennemi d’alors, mais aussi et toujours par les combattants eux-mêmes ou leur famille.

Et le flot ne tarit pas puisque ces dernières années, des souvenirs d’ex Yougoslavie ou de la guerre Du Golfe ont été inscrits à l’inventaire du musée. La présentation permanente des collections au public, s’accompagne d’expositions annuelles consacrées à un thème historique, tout en accordant également une assistance à l’organisation de manifestations locales organisées par diverses collectivités par le biais d’un service de conseil et de prêts d’objets.

Un effort particulier est exercé dans le domaine de l’éducation par un accueil des classes gratuit et accompagné sur des thèmes choisis par les enseignants. L’établissement est, depuis sa création, toujours géré par les membres bénévoles de l’Association du Musée Militaire des Gloires et Souvenirs du Périgord qui ont en charge la présentation et l’entretien des collections, organisent les expositions et assurent les visites guidées.

 


 

 

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32 rue des Farges - 24000
Périgueux
05 53 53 47 36

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Plein tarif : 5€ / Réduit : 3€ (groupe + 10 personnes, personnel du Ministère de l'Intérieur ou des Armées, adhérents Université du Temps Libre de Périgueux) / Gratuit pour les enfants de moins de 18 ans et les groupes scolaires

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Du lundi au samedi de 14h à 18h

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Indochina War Memorials

The memorial in Fréjus. © Ecpad

The memorial to wars in Indochina in Fréjus

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Following the signing of a French-Vietnamese protocol in 1986, the site for a cemetery in France had to be found. 
 
The site
The offer of a free plot of land swung the decision to accept the proposed town of Fréjus, especially given the place’s important role in the country's colonial history: the town was the site of a camp for soldiers leaving for Indochina. These links were evoked by the pagoda and monument and reinforced by the site's close proximity to the navy troops’ museum.
The graves
 
The bodies intended for burial in the Fréjus cemetery were men killed in action as well as civilians (the remains of 3,165 soldiers who were not killed in action having been reburied at a memorial on the military site of La Lègue).
Those killed in action fell between 1940 and 1945 and, for the most part, between 1946 and 1954. Additionally, the plan to build a cemetery was joined by the decision to create a history room. The site was named the “Indochina Wars Memorial”.
 
 
The memorial occupies 23,403 sq.m. of land. It was built within a circular perimeter 110 metres in diameter, the circle symbolising both the journey of life and the military zone inspired by tribal spiritual circles. The rows of recesses hold the bones of 17,188 named soldiers. An additional 62 bodies of soldiers previously buried at the cemetery in Luynes were moved here in 1975. The rows point towards the sea in the direction of the route to Indochina.
This orientation is also mirrored by an ascending pathway that leads to the highest point of the cemetery. The crypt holds the mortal remains of 3,152 unidentified victims in an ossuary. Exceptionally, some 3,618 civilians (including 79 unidentified) were also buried at the site in a columbarium built in the northwest part of the circular site. The cemetery entrance lies at the point in the circle tangent to the RN7 trunk road, between the history room and a pre-existing monument, erected in 1983 by a group of associations.
 
 
The history room
 
The learning room was renovated in 2009 and presents the history of French Indochina. It fulfils two objectives: to pay homage to the expeditionary corps soldiers and to offer visitors to the memorial, school groups in particular, information about the history of the French colonisation campaign and explanations on how the Indochina War started in the first place.
The permanent exhibition is a tribute to the soldiers fighting in Indochina during the Second World War (1939-1945) and the war of 1946-1954, represented by photos, illustrations and paintings. A documentary tells the history of Indochina from 1858 to 1954. The film is divided into three parts: Indochina, the pearl of the empire, 1858-1940; Indochina during World War II and the start of the war, 1940-1950; the war in Indochina from 1951 to 1954.
The exhibition is made up of key images showing soldiers in the French expeditionary corps in the Far East and Indochinese fighters. The human factor of the war is central to the history. The learning room contains a display of 74 canvases (1m x 2.5m) most of which show just one single photo.
 
 
The exhibition is divided into several sections:
 
1. French Indochina, from the conquest to becoming the pearl of the Empire
2. Indochina in the Second World War, 1940-1945
3. The return of France, 1945-1946
4. The beginnings of the First Indochina War (1947-1950) with the opposing forces, the French expeditionary corps, the Indochinese troops and presentation of the Viet Minh.
5. Manoeuvre warfare (1951-1953) with the development of major battles (Tonkin Delta, Hoa Binh, Na San, etc.).
6. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1953-1954)
7. The Geneva Conference and the repercussions of the war
 
Each panel is accompanied by one or more maps and photos.
 
 
Indochina War Memorials
Route Nationale 7 Route du Général Calliès 83600 Fréjus
Tel: 04.94.44.42.90
Open daily from 10 am to 5 pm
Closed Tuesdays
 
 
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Route du Général Calliès 83600
Fréjus
04.94.44.42.90

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Ouvert tous les jours de 10h à 17h Fermé le mardi