Mort pour la France (French pronunciation: [mɔʁ puʁ la fʁɑ̃s], lit. 'died for France') is a legal expression in France and an honour awarded to people...
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inscribed the epitaph: Ici repose un soldat français mort pour la Patrie, 1914–1918 ("Here rests a French soldier who died for the Fatherland, 1914–1918")...
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Flirey Moussy-sur-Aisne Vauclerc-et-la-Vallée-Foulon Ailles Beaulne-et-Chivy Courtecon Craonne Mort pour la France No man's land, the area between the...
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Guillaume Apollinaire (category Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in France)
Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and was recognized as "Fallen for France" (Mort pour la France) because of his commitment during the war. Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz...
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The French War Memorial in Puducherry, India (French: Monument aux combattants des Indes francaises morts pour la patrie) is a war memorial dedicated...
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Evelyne Clopet (category French Resistance members)
and shot at Vendôme on 10 August 1944. Clopet was recognised as "Mort pour la France". Her name is inscribed on the Casablanca war memorial and on the...
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September 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2014. Ed Butler (7 June 2014). "Mort Pour La France". From Our Own Correspondent. 22:25s minutes in. BBC. Radio 4. Retrieved...
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Raoul Minot (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
National Office for Veterans and Victims of War declared Minot a Mort pour la France, a title reserved for honored war dead. The Unknown Photographer...
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and includes all generals they have determined to have mort pour la France (lit. 'died for France'). It includes those killed in action or died of wounds...
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René Béclu (category 20th-century French sculptors)
(3 February 1881, in Paris – 17 January 1915, in Mort pour la France, Riaville (Meuse)) was a French sculptor. He was born in Paris, studied under Antonin...
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Legion of Honour (redirect from Legion of Honor of France)
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur [ɔʁdʁ nɑsjɔnal də la leʒjɔ̃ dɔnœʁ] ), formerly the Imperial Order...
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Suzanne Mertzizen (category French Resistance members)
bodies burnt and buried in the nearby forest. Mertzizen was declared "Mort pour la France" and posthumously awarded the Medal of the Resistance, the Military...
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Gabriel Péri (category Biography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia)
of the French Resistance in World War II, he was executed in German-occupied France at Fort Mont-Valérien. He was deemed Mort pour la France. Péri was...
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Sarkis Bedikian (category Deaths by firearm in France)
was a mort pour la France during the Battle of Marseille. Sarkis Bedikian was born in Zeitoun, Ottoman Empire, around 1908. He settled in France after...
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Eugène Droulers (category French Resistance members)
1945) was a Frenchman who was active in the French Resistance during World War II and a pilot Mort pour la France during Ardennes-Alsace Campaign on his Piper...
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Marie Louis Henry de Granet-Lacroix de Chabrières (category Articles containing French-language text)
Louis Henry de Granet-Lacroix de Chabrières (1807-1859), French officer Mort pour la France, son of Baron Pierre Henry Joseph and Claudine Olympe of Lancelin...
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Coalition casualties in Afghanistan (section France)
90 casualties, 71 were recognized Mort pour la France and 19 were recognized Non Mort pour la France. See also: French forces casualties in Afghanistan [fr]...
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Montluçon (redirect from Montluçon, France)
during WWI Croix de guerre with bronze medal, and after WWII as Mort pour la France Moïse Rimbon [fr] (born 1977), a mixed martial arts fighter Gabrielle...
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The Little Prince (redirect from La Principesa)
received the civil code designation Mort pour la France (English: Died for France), which was applied by the French government in 1948. Amongst the law's...
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At the time of the directive, France protected the works of authors who had died in active service ("mort pour la France") for eighty years pma. Spain...
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Pierre Blanchet (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
Pierre Blanchet (Bollène, September 10, 1907 - Mort pour la France on June 18, 1944, in Radicofani) was a French resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation...
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Oradour-sur-Glane massacre (category 1944 murders in France)
June 2021 at the Wayback Machine Le Monde "Victime du Massacre (Mort pour la France) (643)" Archived 18 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine Geneanet...
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suspect mis en examen pour "assassinat"". BFMTV (in French). AFP. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 8 November 2024. "Une fusillade fait 2 morts et 4 blessés à Marseille...
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Nous aurons toute la mort pour dormir (We will have all death to sleep), is a 1977 Franco–Mauritanian documentary film directed by Med Hondo and produced...
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The Aviator (short story) (category French short stories)
L'Aviateur, by the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944, Mort pour la France). The original...
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Meuse (department) (redirect from Meuse, France)
villages were never rebuilt, and in fact are known as "Morts pour la France" ("Died for France"); the number of displaced persons from the villages varies...
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equality, brotherhood or death" (French: Unité, Indivisibilité de la République; Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ou la mort). on 29 June 1793, the Paris Commune...
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Doumbi Fakoly (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
book, They Died for France (French: Morts pour la France), a historical tale about Senegalese skirmishers who fought for France during World War II....
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du Nouveau Front populaire aux législatives porte plainte pour menaces de mort". Ouest-France. 20 June 2024. Archived from the original on 30 June 2024...
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Jean Venturini (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
national aux marins morts pour la France (in French) Homepage of the website Aux Marins (in French) Historical Service of the French Navy, bureau of Toulon...
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