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1914년, 농촌 마을 Ailles는 약 340헥타르에 걸쳐 있었으며, 그중 1/3은 숲이었습니다. 61채의 집이 Saint-Martin 교회 주변에 모여 있었습니다. 인구는 감소했습니다. 1901년 인구 조사에서는 147명이었지만, 1911년에는 118명에 불과했습니다. Craonne 전투를 기념하기 위해 1814년 3월 7일에 멋진 느릅나무가 심어졌습니다. 1세기 후, 프랑스와 독일의 포탄이 마을을 지도에서 지워버렸을 때, 이 나무는 새로운 전장의 증인이 되었습니다...

Today, this necropolis contains 7,526 bodies: 3,533 (46 of whom could not be identified) resting in individual and collective graves, and 3,993 (3,080 of whom could not be identified) in the ossuary. The first work carried out by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Graves Commission) was completed in 1928, and the old wooden crosses were replaced with stone crosses in 1972. The German soldiers buried in this necropolis were killed on the Chemin des Dames, primarily during the fighting in the autumn of 1914, the spring of 1915, and the battles of 1917 and 1918.

At the center of the Chemin des Dames, the reconstructed village of Cerny-en-Laonnois is a major memorial center: the French cemetery is complemented by a huge German cemetery, two ossuaries, a memorial chapel, and a British monument. It was here that military and political authorities most often visited the Chemin des Dames after the war. A completely reconstructed site, it appears modest in comparison to the many events that made it one of the most disputed points of the Great War from 1914 to 1918. The memorial chapel, erected in 1951 and dedicated to reconciliation, is part of a complex that has included a lantern of the dead since 1960, intended to illuminate the "field of the dead" with a blue light.

on side of a local bar

on the side of the local bar

This is where you drive in and out of the tunnel. The fan is necessary to ventilate the approximately 2.3 km long tunnel. I looked into the tunnel from the other side – it was warm and stuffy.

a nice picnic area that is also well maintained - it had mown grass.

Villers-en-Prayères - the lettering on the building shows the town hall and school in a beautiful building.