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Vouziers is the capital of Ardennes Argonne. A quiet town to stop off to enjoy its shops. Here is the grave of the famous aviator Roland Garros, who died in combat on October 15, 1918.

The main village of Falaise is located on the top of a gaize cliff, on the eastern slope of the Aisne Valley. The top of this cliff dominates the river, which passes at about 105 m above sea level, but 50 m below. The territory of the commune is divided between the valley of the Aisne, its meadows, its few crops, and the plateau connected to the Argonne. Highlights are: Église Saint-Victor, Monument aux morts, Croix Strady.

The Nécropole nationale de Chestres is a military cemetery in Chestres, a commune in Vouziers, in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region, France. The cemetery contains 3,065 French soldiers who died during the First World War. The cemetery is located on the right bank of the Aisne valley, at an altitude of 114 meters, a few hundred meters from the top of the hill, at the place called Les Sablons. There are also other graves in this cemetery, including a Czechoslovak section with 284 casualties in October 1918, of which 160 are unknown in an ossuary. The bodies come from Sugny, Condé-lès-Vouziers, Chestres, Terron-sur-Aisne and Vrizy. There is a monument with the inscription "In memory of the legionnaires of the 21st and 22nd Czechoslovak regiments who fell on the battlefield in 1914-1918 next to their comrades of the Allied armies for freedom"3. There is also a Russian section with 124 bodies of prisoners of the Germans, 10 graves of Belgian citizens who were deported by the Germans as prisoners for work and 3 British graves.

Mention of "Pravda vítězí" on the monument of the Czechoslovak legions in Chestres, Pravda vítězí, translation from Latin Veritas vincit (Truth will triumph) is the national motto of the Czech Republic. This motto was adopted by the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Masaryk, in 1918, at the time of the country's independence.

During the First World War, Vandy was 90% destroyed, the village was liberated in 1918 thanks to the support of Czechoslovak volunteers. In the village, several tributes are preserved to them, for example the inscription on the war memorial To the generous Czechoslovak Legion decimated while fighting gloriously with the French regiments, 1918 or even the street of the Czechoslovak Volunteers. In the town hall, the Czechoslovak War Cross is on display, which can also be found engraved on the pediment of the town hall.