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Douaumont

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Douaumont (d-ōmôN`), village, Meuse dept., NE France. It was part of the Verdun Verdun , town (1990 pop. 23,427), Meuse dept., NE France, in Lorraine, on the Meuse River. A strategic transportation center, Verdun has varied industries and is situated in an agricultural region.
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 battlefield in World War I, and its cemetery, now a national memorial, contains the graves of 300,000 unidentified French soldiers.


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And attacking the Maginot Line would result in a replay of Verdun not for the French but for the Germans; this time there would be no Fort Douaumont.
They attended a ceremony at Douaumont Cemetery, near Verdun, along with Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni, right.
They will meet at Fort Douaumont, epicentre of the 1916 Battle of Verdun, for speeches and prayers at the ossuary where lie the remains of 300,000 men cut down by machine-gun and artillery fire in 300 days and nights of hell.
 
 
 
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