by Susan | Aug 24, 2026 | Monuments
Jean Diot and Bruno Lenoir were two French men arrested and charged with the crime of homosexuality in Paris in 1750. They were the last persons executed in France as punishment for being gay. In 2014, Paris officials...
by Susan | Dec 8, 2025 | Monuments
Dedicated on 12 April 1962 by General de Gaulle, then President of the Republic of France, the Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation is a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from Vichy France. The site is located on the Île de la Cité behind Notre Dame as an...
by Susan | Apr 22, 2024 | Monuments
This project was initiated in 1995 by the mayor of the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois as a testimony of peace and tolerance for the future. Located on a small square on the rue de la paix, there are eight columns. Each genovéfain — resident of the city — under...
by Susan | Nov 6, 2023 | Monuments
World War I ended here in Compiègne . On November 11th, 1918 the Armistice drawing hostilities to a close was signed in this place, in a Wagons-Lit railway dining car, in utter secrecy, after two days of negotiations. After the war, the area was turned into a...
by Susan | Mar 6, 2023 | Monuments
Émile Zola was a French novelist, playwright and journalist, known for his impassioned defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French army who was unjustly accused of treason in a sensational trial dripping with antisemitism. Zola’s...
