Remembrance tourism in Hauts-de-France

To mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Dynamo, the Fort des Dunes and the national military cemetery of Leffrinckoucke reveal an exceptional site, completely restored; a unique witness of the Battle of Dunkirk, whose memory occupies a central place in British and French collective memory. ...

Hauts-de-France was left deeply scarred by the Great War. For the centenary of the conflict, a landscaping project was born to reaffirm the message of peace which today emanates from the region’s remembrance sites and cemeteries. 

Martine Aubry is a research engineer at Lille 3 university. With a group of lecturer-researchers, she designed a database to catalogue the war memorials of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, which became collaborative and has since been expanded to include the rest of France and some foreign countries.  ...