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Ossuaire de Douaumont
The Douaumont Ossuary is a monument to the memory of the soldiers of the 1916 battle of Verdun. It was the setting for one of the symbols of Franco-German friendship: the handshake between François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl on 22 September 1984. It was listed as a historic monument on 2 May 1996. Opposite the ossuary, the Douaumont national cemetery holds 16,142 graves of French soldiers, mostly Catholic, including a section of 592 headstones of Muslim soldiers. The military cemetery also contains two memorials devoted respectively to soldiers of the Jewish and Muslim faiths.
In our collectionsMemorial sites of the First World War
