The castle has been confronted to world war , as it is located in the battlefields. Today cemeteries are points of memory of this past .

 

img6975.jpgTerres de mémoire

It is a french company created by a keen enthusiast of history, registered in the historic place of Peronne. It is the first company offering you battefield guided tours, by a fully certified qualified and local guide ( englsih speaking ).  www.terresdememoire.com

Vadancourt

Vadancourt is a special trip, as it remembers past. The graveyard of Vadancourt gathers many english soldiers for the great strike.

A famous book reminds this :

englishdaughtcov.jpg"Early for my rendezvous, I stopped beside the British graveyard at Vadancourt and wandered among the neat Commonwealth War Graves headstones with their stock, understated laments for the multitudinous dead: some known, some unknown, and the briskly facile "Known unto God" one of the many official formulations for engraved grief worked up by Rudyard Kipling. The cemetery is a small one, just a few hundred headstones, a fraction of the 720,000 British soldiers slain, who in turn made up barely one-tenth of the carnage of that barbaric war, fought by highly civilised nations for no pressing ideological reason."

The englishman's daughter, by by Ben Macintyre

http://www.fsgbooks.com/fsg/englishmansdaughterexcrpt.htm

"A crackerjack book . . . [The] flickering survival of the not-too-distant past inside the present is often this fine writer's largest subject."
--Thomas Mallon, The New York Times Book Review