Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
L'Ossuaire de Douaumont (Douaumont Ossuary)
This is the tomb of countless French and German soldiers whose last homes were the
muddy trenches of Verdun. In the years after the war, a local bishop wandered through the
fields of bones—the bones of an estimated 100,000 French soldiers and even more Ger-
man soldiers. Concluding there needed to be a decent final resting place, he began the os-
suaryprojectin1920.Itwasfinishedin1932.Theunusualartilleryshell-shaped
tower
and
