[Leica] IMG: WWI celebrations in rural France - THANKS + Douglas

[Philippe]

Thank you all for viewing and commenting

Douglas : my village is called La Petite Pierre ( Little Stone in French). In the local dialect it goes by the name of Lutzelstein (very close to old English as it goes). Mungg is a joke. I nicknamed our new to us house Mungg, with reference to a Swiss lodge in a Swiss village we used to go a lot to, before buying our own Mungg (which means Marmot in the Swiss dialect over there).

No serious battles here, even if General Leclerc’s 2nd Armoured Division stopped there for the night on their way to free Strasbourg (WWII). The Ligne Maginot is a bit further north. And Germany about 50km from there.

The city was fortified indeed, under Louis XIVth rule, by Vauban who was the leading engineer. And then again by Napoleon, etc.

Here’s an attempt to copy the address in Google view. Our house should be in the top left corner, next to the 135 yellow label, along the Route de Zittersheim. Meadows on one side, forest on the other one, downhill for a few km and the next village.
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8550328,7.3193726,861a,35y,11.56h,44.77t/data=!3m1!1e3 <https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8550328,7.3193726,861a,35y,11.56h,44.77t/data=!3m1!1e3>

Thanks again

AMities
Philippe
 

> Le 13 nov. 2018 à 22:56, Douglas Barry via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
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> Very poignant, Philippe - torn between two countries. It's a lose lose situation whichever way you turn. Several of my relatives served in the British forces during WW1, but then they returned home and fought for Irish independence.
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> Your village - Mungg? - was it on the front line? I ask as I see rising ground with trees on it in a couple of the images that remind me of abandoned fortifications?
> 
> Douglas
> Douglas Barry
> Monkstown,
> Co. Dublin
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> Subject: [Leica] IMG: WWI celebrations in rural France
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> As you may know, I now live in a small village in Alsace. This area was German in 1914, and turned French in 1918 as it was before 1870 ...
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> Local people there were then forced to join the German troops, or flee, and get enrolled on the French side only to fight their brothers or cousins …
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> The 360 souls village lost 37 young men between 1914 and 1918.
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> Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the end of that war, and I witnessed the local celebrations and hommage.
> No, it did NOT rain ...
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> The series starts here:
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> Amities, and may peace be with us all, fovever.
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> Philippe
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