France – Page 7 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 19, 2014 CN Editorial Team

French and German Presidents to mark Centenary in Alsace on August 3 2014

Centenary News learns that Germany’s President, Joachim Gauck, will join French President François Hollande in Alsace to mark the Centenary of the start of the First World War.

January 27, 2014 CN Editorial Team

New book adds 500,000 to estimates of First World War military dead

A new history of the First World War says the number of soldiers killed or who died on active service has been massively underestimated.

February 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Chorus launches – 600 international young singers to perform at the Royal Albert Hall

Sing UK is bringing together a chorus of young people from four of the former combatant nations of the First World War – Belgium, England, France and Germany – for a special Centenary concert.

March 18, 2014 CN Editorial Team

British First World War soldiers reburied at Loos, France

Twenty British First World War soldiers were reinterred in northern France last week, almost 100 years after they were killed.

April 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

English football chiefs visit France to remember the dead of the First World War

Senior English football representatives have visited Northern France to pay tribute to the players, officials and fans who fought and died in the First World War.

April 8, 2014 CN Editorial Team

France’s Centenary Fund approves €1 million for First World War projects

France’s Centenary Fund has approved €1 million worth of funding support for 286 First World War Centenary projects.

April 12, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Cross-Channel art project explores the First World War

Four institutions from England and France are producing a series of interconnected exhibitions exploring how contemporary artists view the First World War and war in general.

April 15, 2014 CN Editorial Team

French and German museums collaborate for First World War exhibition

The Von der Heydt Museum in Germany is hosting an exhibition exploring how French and German artists responded to the First World War.

April 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

French Museum recaptures the music and sounds of the First World War

A special exhibition devoted to the sounds of the First World War is taking place at the Historial Museum of the Great War in Péronne, close to the Somme battlefields in Northern France.

May 6, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Consciously or unconsciously, the French have the Great War in their hearts’

An article in The Irish Times highlights the arguments of France's pre-eminent First World War historian, Professor Jean-Jacques Becker, who believes that "consciously or unconsciously, the French have the Great War in their hearts".