Operation “1000 Trees for Cemeteries”

Vignemont National Cemetery (Oise department) - Source : MINDEF/SGA/DMPA-ONACVG

Printemps 1918 : les offensives allemandes

Brothers in arms on Mount Kemmel: a French colonel and two English colonels surrounded by officers from their regiments

Les quatorze points de Wilson (8 janvier 1918)

General Pershing landing in Boulogne from the freighter

The liberation of Corsica, 9 September - 4 October 1943

Bombing of Bastia, October 1943. Source: Service Historique de la Défense

On 4 December 1938, in response to Mussolini's clams: ”Corsica, Savoia, Tunisia a noi!”, thousands of Corsicans took an oath in front of the war memorial in Bastia, ”Before the world, with all our souls, on our glories, on our tombs, on our cradles, we swear to live and die French”.

The Battle of Bois des Caures

Map of the Bois des Caures, indicating the positions of the hunters on 21 February 1916. Source: Musée Emile Driant.

On 20 February, Driant wrote in one of his final letters: ”On General Bapst's order... the visit by Joffre yesterday proves that the time is nigh and, deep down, I feel a satisfaction to know that my predictions of a month ago were right… their attack may happen tonight or in several days' time, but it is certain.”