La Targette French cemetery – Neuville-Saint-Vaast
La Targette French war cemetery in Neuville-Saint-Vaast in Pas-de-Calais contains the remains of the soldiers killed in 1915 during the 2nd Battle of Artois
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Neuville-Saint-Vaast German War Cemetery
Neuville-Saint-Vaast German War Cemetery, is the largest WWI German cemetery in France and contains the remains of 44, 833 German soldiers killed in Artois
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La Royère viewpoint – Chemin des Dames
La Royère viewpoint on the Chemin des Dames, a place of remembrance commemorating La Malmaison victory and the French Colonial Troops’ bravery in 1917
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Plateau de Californie – Chemin des Dames
Plateau de Californie, one of the battlefields of the Chemin des Dames, was kept in its war state, planted with pines and turned into a Site of Remembrance
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Constellation de la Douleur – Chemin des Dames
The sculptures of Constellation de la Douleur honor the memory of the French Colonial Troops who died in the assault on the Dragon’s Lair along the Chemin des Dames during World War I
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Caverne du Dragon – Chemin des Dames
The Chemin des Dames Museum was founded above the entrance to the Caverne du Dragon, the site of one of the deadliest battlefields of the failed Nivelle Offensive
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Chemin des Dames – Ladies’ Way – Battlefield
Chemin des Dames or Ladies’ Way, an east-west road running along a ridge and major strategic position that became one of the deadliest battlefields of WWI
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National Military Cemetery Notre Dame de Lorette
National Military Cemetery Notre Dame de Lorette, the largest French military cemetery, gathers the remains of over 40.000 men killed in Artois and Flanders
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Remembrance Ring – Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
The Remembrance Ring, a monument inscribed with 579.606 names of soldiers killed during WWI, was inaugurated in 2014 to commemorate the Great War Centenary
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Gergovie – Vercingetorix versus Julius Caesar
Gergovie in Auvergne, the site of the battle where Vercingetorix, the leader of the Gallic rebellion defeated Julius Caesar’s Roman legionaries in 52BC
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Oradour-sur-Glane massacre – Limousin
Oradour-sur-Glane, burnt down and its inhabitants massacred by the Nazis during WWII, and left as it was as a lasting testimony for future generations
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Normandy Invasion – June – August 1944 – WWII
Normandy Invasion during WWII, the Allied invasion of Northwest Europe codenamed Operation Overlord which started on D-Day and ended on 25 August 1944
