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© Stéphane Compoint
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Bataille de Verdun : Cimetiere francais de Fleury, qui regroupe les tombes de 16142 soldats. En arriere plan, la necropole nationale (l'une des quatre avec celles de Notre Dame de Lorette, de Dormans et du Vieil Armand) et ossuaire de Douaumont, qui recueille les ossements d'environ 130000 soldats francais et allemands inconnus, rassembles sous les dalles d'une crypte de 137 metres de long. C'est ici que, le 22 septembre 1994, Francois Miterrand et Helmut Kolh, main dans la main, ont renforce l'amitie franco-allemande.
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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, Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kolh, hand in hand, have strengthened the Franco-German friendship.
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