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    The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the...
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    impressive ossuary of over a thousand skulls inside the local church, dating from between the 12th and 18th centuries. A more recent example is the Douaumont ossuary...
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    raiding party. Douaumont was later recaptured by the French Army in October 1916, after major casualties on both sides. Douaumont Ossuary Zone rouge (First...
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    Fort Douaumont (French: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun...
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  • for significant individuals and events related to the battle. The Douaumont Ossuary is a memorial containing the remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield...
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    hands during a 1984 Franco-German ceremony to honour the dead at the Douaumont Ossuary, near Verdun. The gesture became a symbol of the reconciliation of...
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    equipment of both French and German troops during the battle. The Douaumont ossuary is a memorial containing the remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield...
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    horrible wars are.[citation needed] The music video was filmed in Douaumont Ossuary, France.[citation needed] List of Billboard number-one alternative...
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    Notre Dame de Lorette (category Ossuaries)
    Colonial fallen as well as an ossuary, containing the bones of those whose names were not marked. In total, the cemetery and ossuary hold the remains of more...
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    for those discovered by the French Forestry Service and laid in the Douaumont ossuary. In the 1960s, Verdun became a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation...
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    combatants who are known to have been killed in the Ypres Salient. The Douaumont ossuary, meanwhile, contains 130,000 unidentifiable sets of French and German...
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    family rediscovered his decorations. On 22 June 1952, he visited the Douaumont ossuary, near Verdun, and took part in a ceremony organized there by Marshal...
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    demanded that President Georges Pompidou consent to its re-interment at Douaumont ossuary among the war dead of the Battle of Verdun. Police recovered the coffin...
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    Class  Qing dynasty: Order of the Double Dragon, Class II Grade II Douaumont Ossuary Verdun Herwig & Hamilton 2004, p. 72. Afflerbach 1996, p. 9. "Erich...
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    Victory Column (Tallinn) Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Park Douaumont Ossuary Verdun Welsh Memorial at Mametz Wood Notre Dame de Lorette Neuve-Chapelle...
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    professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1923, he won the contest for Douaumont ossuary, which reflects his admiration for Roman art and stone building construction...
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    large former battlefields may also contain one or more mass graves. Douaumont ossuary is one such mass grave, and it contains the remains of 130,000 soldiers...
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    National Cemetery and Douaumont Ossuary near Fort Douaumont. Thirteen thousand crosses adorn the field in front of the ossuary, which holds roughly 130...
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    Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial France / French & German Douaumont Ossuary Glade of the Armistice Hartmannswillerkopf L'Âme de la France Notre...
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  • Bois du Puits French ossuary, French national necropolis, Isrealien monument and Muslim monument: Douaumont (Douaumont Ossuary) French plot: civilian...
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    Douaumont French Army cemetery seen from Douaumont ossuary, which contains remains of French and German soldiers who died during the Battle of Verdun in...
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    Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial France / French & German Douaumont Ossuary Glade of the Armistice Hartmannswillerkopf L'Âme de la France Notre...
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  • Azéma (1888–1978) – appointed Architect of the City of Paris in 1928 Douaumont ossuary (1932) Eugène Beaudouin (1898–1983) – influential use of prefabricated...
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    Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial France / French & German Douaumont Ossuary Glade of the Armistice Hartmannswillerkopf L'Âme de la France Notre...
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    Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial France / French & German Douaumont Ossuary Glade of the Armistice Hartmannswillerkopf L'Âme de la France Notre...
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    Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial France / French & German Douaumont Ossuary Glade of the Armistice Hartmannswillerkopf L'Âme de la France Notre...
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    Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial France / French & German Douaumont Ossuary Glade of the Armistice Hartmannswillerkopf L'Âme de la France Notre...
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  • Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 1929 Cinéma Eden, Saint-Jean-d'Angély, 1931 Douaumont Ossuary, Douaumont, 1932 Ecole élémentaire Aristide Briand (elementary school),...
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  • Quai des Belges. 4. L'Ossuaire de Douaumont. Vézien completed several statues for the chapel in the Douaumont ossuary; Saint Joseph, Saint Theresa, the...
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    The huge Douaumont ossuary was built to remember Verdun through a private French charity, organised by the Bishop of Verdun. The ossuary was deliberately...
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