The day after the official commemoration of the Armistice, euronews went to meet the architect of the ring memory. The work of Philippe Prost was inaugurated yesterday by President Holland.
"This ring came to me as quite simply, the idea to express, to give form to the fraternity. I thought these people who form human chains, or those children who form a circle in a schoolyard. It is a way to be together, to be hand in hand and rebuild this fraternity, giving him a form of unity and eternity, "says the architect.
"579,606 names is colossal. I think all of us, somewhere, a distant ancestor, knowledge or knows someone who has a certain celebrity, which is listed on the memorial. It's really something special, touching. (...) There are 500 metal plates engraved with about 1200 names metal plate. (...) A page from the book remained a virgin because in 2018, when unknown fighters never met, found their names, we will still be able to engrave their names on the last, the 500th panel "concludes Philippe Prost.
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