Éparges

Éparges is a common French, located in the department of the Meuse and the area Lorraine.

Geography

History

The hill in the east of the village of Éparges was the subject of important battles in 1914 and 1915. These facts are reported between-others by Maurice Genevoix in one of its books entitled " Éparges". The hill still carries the traces of these engagements, one can see the funnels there resulting from explosions of mines for the control of the famous " not X" who dominates the plain, strategic for the control of artillery.

These positions are the theater of one of the most fatal fights and most painful of all the first war. The enemy baits himself for the possession of the peak, the attacks and the counter-attacks, the combat body with body and the grenade, under a bombardment of shell of all gauges and under the crushing of the torpedes are renewed obstinate, without stop, for one 5 months period under the most painful conditions.

Maurice Genevoix was lieutenant with the 7° company of the 106e regiment of infantry, he has well-known these difficult days in Éparges with its regiment brother the 132 {{E}} regiment of infantry. He wrote his memories in 4 books: under Verdun, night of war, mud, Éparges. They were condensed in only one book: “Those of 14”.

They were condensed in only one book: “Those of 14”

Works

Those of 14 (Under Verdun, Nuits of War, Mud, Eparges , Maurice Genevoix Editions Flammarion, Paris, 1949.

Web sites

Eparges February-April 1915 account of the Mordacq General

The 72è IH, April 1915

58è IH Vauclusiens in the war, Eparges the 5/18/15

With the combatants of the peak of Eparges

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Maxime Real del Sarte was wounded in January 1916 there.
One carried there disappeared during the combat from the September 22nd 1914, the novelist Alain-Baker, lieutenant of reserve left to shift as of the mobilization with the 288e regiment infantry. This disappearance made work the imaginary one of much until its body was found and identified in a German common grave in 1991 to a few hundred meters of the Tranchée of Calonne.

See too

Common of the Meuse

External bonds

Éparges on the site of the national geographical Institute
Éparges on the site of INSEE
Éparges Éparges on the site of Quid
Localization of Éparges on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Éparges on Mapquest
Eparges on WikiMapia

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