Haumont-près-Samogneux
Haumont-près-Samogneux
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16 km north of Charny - 22 km north of Verdun.
Names of people: the "Sachot" the name of small linen bags that people made their own to store their crops.
Between the wars, near Haumont Samogneux is decreed in 1919 "destroyed village", whose unique status is shared by eight other villages in Meuse. March 15, 1921, he was mentioned in dispatches to mark recognition of the Nation for the supreme sacrifice of the town. On August 28, 1928, the memorial was inaugurated and in 1932 the chapel Saint-Nicolas shelter is built and furnished and decorated in 1933, proving the will of its former inhabitants, "Sachot" to make a place Memory observed.
In 1940, the beginning of World War II reviews occur more fighting on its territory, during the inevitable thrust of the German army jostling the few brave French troops still desperately trying to curb it.
The effect of the occupation of the country that follows shows the effective abandonment of the maintenance of the memorial, from 1940 to 1968. Nature to resuming his duties, the chapel disappeared even under the vegetation ...
But in 1971, under the leadership of its mayor, Charles Tilt, a lot of work cleaning and restoration is undertaken. And now, Haumont-près-Samogneux and "Sachot" continue this essential work each year in memory, if necessary for future generations.
Even before a village, Haumont-près-Samogneux, was originally a place of celebration of the Gallic sun god through an altar in the first century AD on the heights.
Subsequently, the Roman army to establish a fortified camp.
Towards the end of the Thirty Years War that pitted Catholics and Protestants, the village is found completely ruined by the constant passage of troops and ransom of up to torture the people unable to meet them.
300 inhabitants in 1850, its population increased to 139 in 1914. It is evacuated shortly after the start of the war, due to its location far north, too close to the front had stabilized a few miles from him, thanks to the success of the Battle of the Marne.
However, he suffered a first bombing Feb. 7, 1915 that damages a part of his church.
But it was not commensurate with the one he will undergo a year later, February 20, 1916, at the beginning of the great German offensive on Verdun.
February 22, 1916, the valiant defense of the village by the 362nd Infantry Regiment requires German assault troops retreat ... This brief respite for hairy results in the breaking of a rain of iron and fire launched by the powerful German artillery. During this violent bombardment, the town literally collapsed, burying 80 brave hairy especially in its stones and rubble.
The German advance on the French lines allows the town to be away from the heavy fighting taking place further south until October 1918 that saw the offensive thrust of the French army back in its sector. Its ruins are indeed times October 8, 1918, by the 67th Infantry Regiment and the 66th and 68th battalions of Senegalese soldiers, slightly more than a month before the end of hostilities.
The chapel of Saint-Nicolas (triptych painting by Lucien Lantier, representing the village in 1914.1915 and 1916).
The war memorial.
Remains of the village.
 | Vestige of the village |  |
| |  | Chapelle Saint-Nicolas | |
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| Wednesday 15 February | Day
 | Night
 | | Min. 1°C - Max. 8°C |
| | Thursday 16 February | Day
 | Night
 | | Min. -1°C - Max. 7°C |
| | Friday 17 February | Day
 | Night
 | | Min. 1°C - Max. 8°C |
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