Verdun, France November 11, 2022. Commemoration Of The Victory And The Armistice Of The 1914-1918 War. Editorial Photo

Verdun, France November 11, 2022. Commemoration of the victory and the armistice of the 1914-1918 war. Several wreaths were laid at the monument of remembrance, for the children of Verdun who died for their country. This war memorial depicts five soldiers representing the different arms: an infantryman, an engineer sapper, an artilleryman, a cavalryman and a territorial. Massive and giant, the five statues pay homage to some familiar figures of the Great War. From left to right, the cuirassier with his sabre, his characteristic helmet and his cape, image of an army of past centuries from which the horse is disappearing then, the territorial wrapped up in his tent to protect himself from the weather, ready for all the thankless tasks like throwing shovelfuls of pebbles under the wheels of the trucks on the Sacred Way or digging trenches in the center, young, determined, fists clenched, the infantryman with well-stocked cartridge pouches, in his 1916 uniform, hero of all the battlefields and winner of Verdun then, with his air of an old mustachioed curmudgeon, the colonial in the tunic with the sides turned up and, against the rigors of the Meuse winter, a scarf around his neck, no doubt taken from a family package finally, the artilleryman equipped with his indispensable binoculars for aiming the gun, lord of the modern war more and more technical and industrial.