Archive for August, 2024

The partisans' song was born on the Col de Banyuls

Famous writers such as Maurice Druon and Joseph Kessel have said that it was at the Col de Banyuls, on leaving France, that the partisans' song was born. For 11 sites, panels with commentary and illustrated with period photographs will complete the information for hikers taking these "paths". They pay tribute to the courage of the local population, who helped those fleeing the occupying forces (resistance fighters, Jews, young STO draft dodgers joining the Free French troops in Algiers...) to cross over to Spain. Among them were writers [...]

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Testimonies from deportees

The documentary film aims to pay tribute to the men, women and children who climbed them by the hundreds of thousands, through an aesthetic and poetic narrative that is above all memorial and educational, with the aim of denouncing the hatred that produced this suffering and passing on to younger generations the responsibility of ensuring that it does not happen again.

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80 years of the Liberation
Historical re-enactment

SATURDAY August 24 at the airfield 9:30am: Members welcome in Salle Sévigné for CFP Museum AGM10:30am: CFP/49 RI AGM 12:30pm: Verre de l'amitié - Meal on camp for AGM participants14:30pm: Ceremonies at Magnoac steles (Campuzan, Vieuzos, Monléon, Monlong and Chélan bridge)6:00 pm: From Chélan, movement to Château de Pernet for presentation of PC Céroni, then memorial march to Place Soulés in Castelnau7:00 pm: Reception of members for the [...]

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