A journey aimed at allowing children to understand the extraordinary victory that the Franco-German friendship represents and the human sacrifices that peace has demanded.
To commemorate the Second Battle of Flirey in Meurthe-et-Moselle, where many soldiers from Nice fell, twenty-five students from a fifth-grade class at Jules Ferry School and their supervisors, about ten musicians from the Firefighter Band, and representatives from the veteran community will spend four days in locations where people from Nice and Provence fought for a Free France a century ago, many of whom lost their lives there.
A rich program of visits and ceremonies will be offered to the children and their chaperones. They will visit the American cemetery in Thiaucourt (the third largest in Europe) and the military cemetery of Flirey, attend the ceremony at the Monument of the 163rd Regiment of Infantry and the American Victory Monument in Flirey, and visit trenches in the Flirey Saint-Baussant area.
In Verdun, they will visit the underground Citadel where the selection of the unknown soldier took place, Douaumont, the ossuary (which houses the unidentified remains of about 130,000 French and German soldiers), Fey en Haye, and Flirey. They will immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the destroyed villages…
