Fleury-in front of-Douaumont is a common French, located in the department of the Meuse and the area Lorraine.

Geography

History

Fleury-in front of-Douaumont was a village of the department of the Meuse located near Verdun with 422 inhabitants before the war. He lived mainly of cereal agriculture and the work of wood. He was taken and taken again 16 times in 2 months by French and Germans. It is one of the nine villages destroyed at the time of the Bataille of Verdun in 1916 during the First World War.

Administration

Places and monuments

Today place to remember, Fleury is a wooded space or the marks of the furious combat which were held there still visible although are attenuated by time. An arrow course makes it possible to discover the site of the houses which were drawn up in the various streets of the village before the destruction from this one.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Internal bonds

• French Villages destroyed during the First World War
• After-effect of war
• not exploded Ammunition
• Red zone
• Common of the Meuse

External bonds

• Site on the destroyed villages
• Localization in Googlemaps

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