See also: Flamengrie

Flamengrie is a common French, located in the department of the Aisne and the area Picardy.

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Places and monuments

Pierre d' Haudroy: It is one of the most outstanding events of the First World War which was held in Pierre d' Haudroy, place located on the road connecting Wignehies with Capelle. November 7th, 1918, avant-garde of the French Army, in its victorious projection, made halt with the " Pierre d' Haudroy". Waited 16:00, it is finally with 20:20 until the German members of Parliament present to the 1st battalion 171e regiment of infantry of Belfort to negotiate the conditions of the armistice. They raised a white flag, which they had made in Fourmies where they were restaurésà the assistance of a bamboo and a piece of cloth. It is the corporal-bugle Pierre Sellier, originating in Beaucourt (close to Belfort) which, climbed on the market foot of the first German car, will open the road with the convoy by playing the " cease the feu" with the bugle. The officer who receives the General von Winterfeld is the captain Lhuillier, commander of this battalion. It is one of the most outstanding events of the First World War which was held in Pierre d' Haudroy, place located on the road connecting Wignehies with Capelle. The Way of the Ladies (the girls of the king Louis XV borrowed it from where its name), located between Soissons and Rheims, is the theater of combat repeated and especially very fatal. Against launched allied offensive constrained in July 1918 German who had strengthened the peaks of this road to evacuate this position on October 10th, 1918. November 7th, 1918, avant-garde of the French Army, in its victorious projection, made halt with the " Pierre d' Haudroy". Waited 16:00, it is finally with 20:20 until the German members of Parliament present to the 1st battalion 171e regiment of infantry of Belfort to negotiate the conditions of the armistice. They raised a white flag, which they had made in Fourmies where they were restaurésà the assistance of a bamboo and a piece of cloth. It is the corporal-bugle Pierre Sellier, originating in Beaucourt (close to Belfort) which, climbed on the market foot of the first German car, will open the road with the convoy by playing the " cease the feu" with the bugle. The officer who receives the General von Winterfeld is the captain Lhuillier, commander of this battalion. He will be finally signed on November 11th, 1918 at 5 hours with Rethondes, general headquarter of Foch. He must take effect later six hours. This same day at 11 a.m., the corporal-bugle Pierre Saddler, sounds it “Cease the fire” of Pierre d' Haudroy marking the official end of this so fatal war. A granite monument of the Vosges will be high on this site and inaugurated on November 5th, 1925. Since this date until its death in 1948, the Sellier bugle will sound each year the " on the spot; Cease the feu" in commemoration. The monument was dynamited by German on August 14th, 1940 then rebuilt and inaugurated again on November 14th, 1948. The central stone used to rebuild the monument was brought back by Ernest Gernez of the building site of Ravenna Brücke in Germany.

Personalities related to the commune

• Troignon, lieutenant of the Captain Moneuse, driver, brigand of main road, assassin, plunderer… died in mysterious circumstances beginning 1795.

See too

• Common of Aisne

External bonds

• Flamengrie on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Flamengrie on the site of INSEE
• Flamengrie on the site of Quid
• Localization of Flamengrie on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane of Flamengrie on Mapquest

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