Conference-meeting/ Football and rugby during the conflict

Name: Conference-meeting/ Football and rugby during the conflict
Start: 2024-05-18T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-18T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée du Fort de la Pompelle

Sport and the First World War

Saturday 18 May, 21:00Passed

Conditions

Free admission - Limited number of places/ Reservation recommended

Registration

03.26.35.36.61

Sport and the First World War

In order to manage the long waiting moments loaded with anxiety between two fights, the Poilus began to spontaneously practice sport. This activity developed throughout the conflict and helped lay the foundations of French sport in 1919. Four times of exchanges make you discover this unexpected heritage...

By Michel Merckel, author of 14-18, the sport comes out of the trenches

About the location

Musée du Fort de la Pompelle

Sortie de Reims RN 44 direction Châlons-en-Champagne, 51100 Reims

Marne
Grand Est

The museum of the Fort of Pompelle, entirely redeveloped, contains the second collection of France over 1914-1918\. His(Her,Its) rich collections: artillery, models carrying uniforms, documents of times(periods) are emphasised by a piece of news(short story) muséographie accompanied with numerous multimedia tools. Renovated courtyards plunge you in everyday life of trenches and into the history(story) of this Historical monument.
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