Remembrance site brochures
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The DPMA and the National Office for Veterans and War Victims (ONAC-VG), responsible for maintaining remembrance sites, present a full tourism offering around the remembrance sites and national military cemeteries managed by the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the French State’s number-two cultural actor.
French remembrance sites attracted nearly 14 million visitors in 2018, including one third foreign tourists and over a million schoolchildren.
Franco-Prussian War remembrance sites
Graves and key remembrance sites
National military cemeteries
Foreword: the landscaping style guide for military cemeteries: a tool for developing and restoring remembrance sites
First World War
- Argonne to Saint-Mihiel
- Artois to the Somme
- The Marne to Chemin des Dames
- Moselle to Haut-Rhin
- Belgium, 1914-18
Second World War
The ten Major National Remembrance Sites
Cemetery of Notre Dame de Lorette
Battlefields of Artois and Flanders
ABLAIN SAINT-NAZAIRE • PAS DE CALAIS
Cemetery of Fleury-devant-Douaumont
VERDUN • MEUSE
The Mont Valérien memorial
SURESNES • HAUTS DE SEINE
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Montluc Prison National Memorial
LYON • RHÔNE
Visit the website
Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp
Deportation and European resistance
NATZWILLER • BAS-RHIN
Visit the website
Memorial to the Martyrs of Deportation
ÎLE DE LA CITÉ • PARIS
Find out all about the site on the Ministry of the Armed Forces and ONAC websites
Memorial to the Landings and Liberation of Provence
TOULON • VAR
Visit the website
Memorial to the First Indochina War
FRÉJUS • VAR
The National Memorial to the Algerian War and the fighting in Morocco and Tunisia
QUAI BRANLY • PARIS
Visit the website
The Memorial to French soldiers killed in overseas operations
PARC ANDRÉ-CITROËN • PARIS
Find all the information on the site’s web page
Maps of French remembrance sites
THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR TO WWI / WWII TO THE PRESENT
MAP OF REMEMBRANCE SITES
THE FRENCH MILITARY AROUND THE WORLD
Museums and Memorials of Contemporary Conflicts