Le tourisme de mémoire en Ile-de-France

On 25 August 2019, Paris celebrates the 75th anniversary of its liberation. For the Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du Général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin, due to be officially opened that day at Place Denfert-Rochereau, a new page of its history, begun 25 years ago, is being written. ...

A completely redesigned Musée de la Résistance Nationale (MRN) is preparing to open at Champigny-sur-Marne, with exhibition spaces housed in a new building and a research centre on the historical site. An ambitious project offering a fresh insight into the Resistance.

Graphic designer and typographer Philippe Apeloig has compiled a large-format book of photographs of all of Paris’s Second World War commemorative plaques. Combining typography and remembrance, the plaques reveal the whole tragic story of the period.