Le Souvenir français
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Le Souvenir français
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Le Souvenir français is a French association for maintaining war memorials and war memory, comparable to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It was created in 1887 in the departments of Alsace and Lorraine. Young women in traditional dress had been furtively placing cockades on soldiers' tombs. An Alsatian professor, Xavier Niessen, against Prussian orders in these departments, was keen to show his membership of the French fatherland and thought that remembering those who had died for France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Souvenir_fran%C3%A7ais
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2024-04-22T12:52:29Z
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