Underground citadel of Verdun
The galleries of the underground citadel of Verdun were the witnesses of the moments most important of the First World War. From 1890 to 1893 pennies the direction of the commander Guinot, one dug on 7 km of the underground galleries, making it possible to shelter 2000 men.
As explains it the Histoire of the unknown soldier, it is on November 10th 1920, at the end of the morning, takes place the ceremony of nomination the unknown soldier who must rest under the Triumphal arch of Paris. Eight coffins, covered with a tricolor Flag, are aligned in an underground gallery of the citadel of Verdun transformed into burning Chapelle and the soldier Auguste Thin, 132e IH, vêtu of a new uniform, is charged to choose in the presence of the Minister for the Pensions André Maginot, who asks him, by presenting a bouquet of flower to him, to deposit it on one of the eight coffins.
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