Beauséjour is a former commune and was a village in
France
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that was largely destroyed in
World War I
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. Now it was part of the
commune of
Minaucourt-le-Mesnil-lès-Hurlus
Minaucourt-le-Mesnil-lès-Hurlus () is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Marne department
The following is a list of the 610 communes in the French department of Marne.
The communes coo ...
(
Marne
Marne can refer to:
Places France
*Marne (river), a tributary of the Seine
*Marne (department), a département in northeastern France named after the river
* La Marne, a commune in western France
*Marne, a legislative constituency (France)
Nethe ...
).
Founded in 1820, it was the scene of historic fighting between the Germans, French, and English in 1914 and 1915. It was not rebuilt after the war. Today it is the site of historic markers. The village received coverage in news articles years later, as France's oldest recorded man,
Maurice Floquet
Maurice Noël Floquet (25 December 1894 – 10 November 2006) was, aged 111 and 320 days, France's former oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I. He is also France's longest-lived soldier of al ...
, fought at the battle as a soldier and survived.
References
* http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/neuvecha.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20060320155810/http://crdp.ac-reims.fr/memoire/lieux/1GM_CA/villages_detruits/beausejour.htm
External links
La Fermede Beauséjour€”Article in French
€”An account of the fighting in the area
Former populated places in France
France in World War I
Geography of Marne (department)
Ghost towns in France
History of Marne (department)
Aftermath of World War I in France
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