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Veules-les-Roses blockhaus
Veules-les-Roses is a French town bordered by the English Channel, the smallest river in France crosses the city, the Veules, with a length of 1149 meters. Beaches are overlooked by cliffs, which with erosion are gradually collapsing. Some WWII blockhauses built on top of the cliffs of the Normandy coast also collapse. There is one…
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The Montluc prison in Lyon
The project of the Montluc military prison was decided in 1914, it was finally built in 1921. With the release of the prisoners of war and the reduction of military prisoners it will be little used, in 1926 the prison is lent to civil justice. The civilian prison population also declined in the 1920s and…
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Oradour-sur-Glane, memory of a massacre
The village of Oradour-sur-Glane is located about twenty kilometers from Limoges, in Limousin, a region of France. At the beginning of the 1940s, the central town had 330 inhabitants, and the entire area a little over 1,500 inhabitants. The population has increased following waves of migration since 1939: Spaniards fleeing Francoism, Alsatian evacuees, Moselle expelled,…
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Leffrinckoucke Blockhauses
There are a lot of blockhauses on the northern beaches of France. One of the most original was perhaps the Leffrinckoucke mirror blockhaus. I say « was » because the artist has since removed the mirrors that covered the concrete for seven years. Every year 500 hours of volunteer work, and as many tubes of glue, were…
Gwlad Sas 