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mtncorg Says: Fighting here from 20 September 1914 until 21 March 1915, the men of the 302nd RI are memorialized. This is Point X which was the focal spot for horrific fighting that took place over months here in the Meuse Heights above the Woevre Plain to the east. The broad overlook of...
MONUMENT TO THE 106TH AND 132ND RI
mtncorg Says: This monument, dating to 1935, remembers the actions of the 106th and 132nd RI here at Les Eparges between September 1914 and April 1915. “Je Crois” is the inscription – “I Believe”. The monument is topped with a death mask looking towards heaven. Beseeching skeletal hands...
FRENCH NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERY DU TROTTOIR
mtncorg Says: This cemetery signals your entry onto the battlefields of Les Eparges along the lower slopes of the hillock. Du Trottoir contains the remains of 3,000 soldiers – 85 unknowns buried together in an ossuary. Information panels describe the course of the fighting in and around...
mtncorg Says: A Finance Minister for Louis XVI during the money crisis which support for the American Revolution instigated and would lead directly to the French Revolution, Charles Alexandre de Calonne had a chateau at the base of the eastern Meuse Highlands near Hatttonchatel. In order...
FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY - ST REMY-EN-CALONNE
mtncorg Says: Here in the woods atop the Meuse Heights during the spring of 1915 the war raged with one side taking ground only to lose it when the other side counterattacked. In this small military cemetery in the upper part of the little Longeau valley are the bodies of Alain-Fournier...
MEMORIAL TO ALAIN-FORNIER AND HIS COMPANIONS
mtncorg Says: On 22 September, 1914, the young author and lieutenant Alain-Fournier – his one famous novel being “Le Grand Meaulnes” – and twenty comrades of the 288th RI disappeared. Tutor to T. S. Eliot and friend to another young French writer who would die in September of 1914,...
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On 22 September, 1914, the young author and lieutenant Alain-Fournier – his one famous novel being “Le Grand Meaulnes” – and twenty comrades of the 288th RI...
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At 346 meters high, Les Eparges serves as a counterpoint to the Vauquois. Both hills serve as eastern and western ends to the Verdun sector of the Western Front. Both were the scene for intensive mine...
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