French President inaugurated on 11 November, the "Ring of Memory" of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. A memorial to fallen soldiers in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais during the First World War.
François Hollande discovered imposing monument composed of 500 steel plates which bear the name of
580,000 soldiers, listed in alphabetical order, regardless of origin or nationality distinction.
Students from different countries presented to the Head of State extracts the lives of three soldiers - French, German and British - died at the front. Marcel Garrigues was one of them. This Hairy was killed Dec. 12, 1915.
"I'm still out so far, I hope to continue until the end of war" - Marcel written in June 1915. He did not see this as he expected, "said Emma.
He took part in the offensive of 100 days that will lead the Allies to ultimate victory. Wilfred Owen, often considered one of the greatest poets of the Great War, fall just days before the Armistice, November 4, 1918. An excerpt from the "Ode to Youth condemned" Wilfried Owen was read by Alice .
"What bell tolls for those who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns,
Only the quick rattle of guns hoquetants
Can punctuate their early prayers. "
Finally, Tom, a German schoolboy presented Karl Schrag, a German soldier of just 22 years, son of single sweep.
"Death at the beginning of the offensive, when artillery is used the most, it was probably the victim of an explosion of shells. As the traces and documents are missing, and it is often the case for German fighters, as a large part of the archives of the Great War was destroyed during World War II, only the patient and curious work of the historian allows approaching what was the fate of the millions of anonymous, "read before Tom Francois Hollande.
"Peace is still fragile, it can falter at any moment," then recalled Francois Hollande, citing the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq. Remember atrocities not to relive them. "Whenever nationalism reappeared, every time that the ideologies of hatred resurface every time separatism are exacerbated, then we must remember the vicious circle of the summer of 1914 and where he led the humanity. The memory is not done for the past, it is for the present and the future, "stressed the head of state.
Laurence Alexandrowicz, euronews:
"François Hollande recalled in his speech the international dimension of the conflict in this ring that is behind me, are the names of 580,000 soldiers, but also among them, those of more than 241,000 British soldiers. They are the ones who paid the heaviest toll on the land of Artois.
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