Visit of the Fort of Douaumont by young high school students

Visit of the Fort of Douaumont by young high school students

To transmit to young people the memory of the fighters of the First World War, a history teacher of the Janetti high school of Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume took his students to visit the Fort of Douaumont in the Meuse, impressive with its cemetery of white crosses, its ossuary and its reconstructions of trench warfare. Yan BOUVIER, geography history teacher at Clémence Royer Fonsorbes high school, shared with his classes for four years the life of Poilu Frédéric Branche by creating a Twitter account from his war diary. Testimony of high school students impressed by this cemetery of white crosses, including Eva JUST student of 1st, of Martin GELLY professor of history geography at the Janetti high school of SaintMaximin-la-Sainte-Baume and Yan BOUVIER geography history teacher at Clémence Royer Fonsorbes high school.

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File : History and youth

Publication date : 10 November 2018