Re-enactment and guided tours

Name: Reconstitution et visites guidées
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de la Guerre de 1870

European Heritage Days 2023

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Musée de la guerre de 1870

Demonstration and manipulation of militaria, Guided tours of the battlefield
Possibility of picnic in the gardens.

Types d'événement

Atelier / Démonstration / Savoir-faire

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

À propos du lieu

Musée de la Guerre de 1870

Place du 2-décembre-1870 28140 Loigny-la-Bataille

Eure-et-Loir
Centre-Val de Loire

Loigny-la-Bataille is a commemorative site on the war of 1870\. After the fall of Metz and the capture of Napoleon III in Sedan, there is renewed hope with the army of the Loire which advances to free(deliver) besieged Paris. The forehead(front) spreads out on about hundred kilometres. December 2nd, 1870, in Loigny, 40 000 French fight against 35 000 Prussian and Bavarian. The French army sags, the brigade of the general de Sonis tries(tempts) in a crazy load(responsibility), to restore situation. In its breast, the zouaves(clowns) Pontificaux du colonels de Charette put together behind their flag "Heart of Jesus, Save France" lose two thirds(third parties) of their staff(size). In this close of day, 9000 French and Germanic victims are counted. In the memorial (the new church), the history(story) of battle through paintings(boards), via the crypt and the ossuary will be discovered. In the museum is kept the memory of the French soldiers (among whom the pontifical Zouaves(Clowns)) and from German: uniforms, weapons, helmets(headphones). A path(way) of Memory allows to discover 10 sites all around Loigny of whom(which) the table of orientation in the Cross of Sonis (400 m of Loigny towards Terminiers).