The Champs national cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Champs. © Guillaume Pichard
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The Champs national cemetery holds the bodies of soldiers who died during the two world conflicts, namely 2,731 Frenchmen including 940 in two ossuaries, 80 Russians, an unknown Belgian soldier and one Italian who fell during the fighting on the Chemin des Dames between 1914 and 1918. 178 Frenchmen killed in the fighting during the French campaign in June 1940 also lie in this cemetery. Among the soldiers buried here are numerous infantrymen from the colonies.
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