verdun, france 🇫🇷 | WWI, forts, downtown and a french candy

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00:00 verdun
00:40 memorial of verdun
1:32 fort of vaux
2:40 ossuary of douaumont
4:06 visit by car!
4:34 downtown / centre-ville
5:27 dragées french candy

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hey guys my name is Lyndi, I’m an American that’s been living in France for over six years now and as I’ve been living in this region for a while, I’ve yet to visit this historical city! So today we’re visiting Verdun and it’s "alentours" so places nearby as well Verdun is known in the Lorraine region mainly due to World War I but it also dates back even further to Medieval Times. so for today we’re going to visit a couple historical sites and then end on a sweet note by trying the "dragée" which is candy created in Verdun As for World War I, Verdun was pretty much destroyed completely after the battle of the marne in 1914. however the city gets its name from the Battle of verdun which is said to be one of the most terrible battles during the war. as for the US involvement, the US didn’t get involved until 1917 after a long period of the US trying to remain neutral. so our next stop is the Fort of Vaux. this fort was bombarded in 1916 by about 8,000 bombs a day the troops resisted and fought before being forced to surrender due to exhaustion it then became the symbol of the resistance for the soldier of verdun something I noticed right away and found really interesting is there’s a pigeon Memorial! this is due to the high use of pigeons during the war for this fort so it was a way to honor them we just went to the ossuary of Douaumont which is the shrine to the 130,000 French and German soldiers and you’re not allowed to film inside but I’ll try to find a photo online to show you but it has this beautiful warm orange glow that fills the hallways down both sides due to the stained glass and then once you go outside if you look at the ground floor level, there are windows – if you peer in, you’ll actually see the bones! and then there are rows of the famous tombstones in the front of the building something I’ll add is if you plan on coming to verdun, come by car! if you try to come by train you can really only access the city center and if you want to see all the forts and the memorials and everything related to the war, you kind of need to come by car to access it but I did see some bike paths so that might be an option too our last stop is to try the dragée. so this is a French candy with an almond or other filling and then it’s covered with a crunchy sugar coating. the dragée was invented in verdun and you can usually find them at French weddings, communions, baptisms, things like that we didn’t end up having time, but there’s also a tour of the factory that you can take to see the behind the scenes of this French confectionary so that concludes our visit to Verdun! I hope you enjoyed our little historical visit thanks so much for watching, until the next time *gros bisous salut*