Memorial de la France Combattante
Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Le Memorial de la France Combattante is a monument in honour of the French Soldiers & resistance people & deported people. It can be found on Mont Valerien ( Suresnes ).
Sixteen bronze relief sculptures by 16 artists represent the struggle of France for liberation. Behind an eternal flame ( see picture ) the crypt contains the tombs of 16 heroes from 16 French Battles in World War II ( a 17 th. is left empty for the last liberation hero). The memorial is built on the site where members of the resistance were brought from prisons in Paris. A staircase from within the crypt leads the visitors to the chapel where prisoners were locked before execution, and down to the Clairiere des Fusilles where they were shot. The chapel walls were covered with desperate graffiti of the prisoners. It also contains five of the wooden firing posts against wich the condemned were tied. More than 1.000 people were shot here, no one is known to have escaped.
Le Memorial de la France Combattante is a monument in honour of the French Soldiers & resistance people & deported people. It can be found on Mont Valerien ( Suresnes ).
Sixteen bronze relief sculptures by 16 artists represent the struggle of France for liberation. Behind an eternal flame ( see picture ) the crypt contains the tombs of 16 heroes from 16 French Battles in World War II ( a 17 th. is left empty for the last liberation hero). The memorial is built on the site where members of the resistance were brought from prisons in Paris. A staircase from within the crypt leads the visitors to the chapel where prisoners were locked before execution, and down to the Clairiere des Fusilles where they were shot. The chapel walls were covered with desperate graffiti of the prisoners. It also contains five of the wooden firing posts against wich the condemned were tied. More than 1.000 people were shot here, no one is known to have escaped.
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Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
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Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
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Suresnes, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
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- Added: 11 Jul 2009
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2313667
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