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Fort Vaux in Verdun has become a symbol of the heroism of the French soldiers who braved days of siege and shell attacks by the German army during the First World War.

Around 620, a community of monks founded an abbey atop the hill of the French village of Montfaucon d'Argonne. 

A stone's throw from the Douamont fortress meanders the Boyau de Londres, a World War I trench.

Until 2014, you could still see trains passing in the French-fortified town of Bitche. From then on, train traffic on the route section between Niederbronn via Bitche to Sarreguemines was discontinued.

Hidden deep in the woods near Verdun, France, lies Camp Marguerre, where the German army tested the use of concrete during the First World War.

With the closure of the Saint-Quentin headframe in 1971, slate mining in Rimogne, France, ended.

With the dynamiting of the two blast furnaces of the Usine de Senelle, the last witnesses of the steel basin in Longwy, France, disappeared in the summer of 1991. Or almost everything.

At the end of the First World War, the French Army built an observation tower to monitor potential movements of the German forces.