After the Second World War a sculptor named Paulette Richon made a number of monuments to those killed in the War. Nowadays, she is virtually unknown, as are the events she was memorialising. But she happened to live in the same village as us, so we have come to know about her story.
The memorial in the photo is to commemorate the liberation of one small town in the Loire Valley, and honour the Resistance fighters who lost their lives so close to the end of the war here. They are buried in the local cemetery, but the memorial is sited at one end of the bridge they fought so determinedly to defend.
This may be small scale local history, but we believe sharing it with our clients enriches their tour, and we hope they are as moved as we are by the lives we recall and weave their stories into the bigger history.
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