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© Stéphane Compoint
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Battle of Verdun: French Cemetery of Fleury, which contains the graves of 16,142 soldiers. On the background, the National Necropolis (one of the four with those of Notre Dame de Lorette, Dormans and Old Armand) and Douaumont ossuary, which collects the bones of about 130,000 French and German unknown soldiers, gathered under the slab of a crypt 137 meters long. These memorials were built after the war on the very site of the battlefield of Verdun. It is here that on 22 September 1994, François Mitterrand and Helmut Kolh, hand in hand, have strengthened the Franco-German friendship.
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