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The Mémorial de la France combattante ( Memorial to Fighting France) is the most important memorial to French fighters of World War II (1939–1945). It is situated below Fort Mont-Valérien in Suresnes, in the western suburbs of Paris. It commemorates members of the armed forces from France and the colonies, and members of the French Resistance.
Pierre Garbay. The 1st Free French Division ( French: 1re Division Française Libre, 1re DFL) was one of the principal units of the Free French Forces (FFL) during World War II, renowned for having fought the Battle of Bir Hakeim . Consisting of troops from mainland France and from the then French colonial empire, the division was formed by the ...
The site now serves as a national memorial. On 18 June 1945, Charles de Gaulle consecrated the site in a public ceremony. The area in front of the "Mémorial de la France combattante", a reminder of the French Resistance against the German occupation forces, has been named Square Abbé Franz Stock. During the German occupation, Stock took care ...
The liberation of Strasbourg took place on 23 November 1944 during the Alsace campaign (November 1944 – March 1945) in the last months of World War II.After the liberation of Mulhouse on 21 November 1944 by the 1st Armored Division, General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and the 2nd Armored Division entered the city of Strasbourg in France after having liberated Sarrebourg and La Petite ...
Combat (French Resistance) ID from a combat member active in Marseille (Région R2). Combat was a large movement in the French Resistance created in the non-occupied zone of France during the World War II (1939–1945). Combat was one of the eight great resistance movements which constituted the Conseil national de la Résistance .
The FTP-MOI ( Francs-tireurs et partisans – main-d'œuvre immigrée) was created in the spring of 1942 with four detachments made up of communists of "immigrant" origin. Most of its fighters were Jews from France, Hungary, Romania or elsewhere in Europe. Some were former volunteers in the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War (1936 ...
Saint-Charles-de-Percy War Cemetery. Saint-Désir-de-Lisieux German war cemetery. Saint-Manvieu War Cemetery. Statue of Heracles, Arcachon. Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial.
Claude Grange was a sculptor, born in Vienne in Isère on 23 September 1883 and who died in Paris on 22 September 1971. He attended Ponsard college in Vienne, then attended Lyon's École des Beaux-Arts before moving on to Paris' École des Beaux-Arts in 1906. There he won the "Prix de Rome" in 1913 and enrolled at the Villa Médicis.