Tourism and remembrance

The Charles de Gaulle Museum

LILLE

Charles de Gaulle was born in Lille at 9, Rue Princesse in his grandparents’ house, which has now been turned into a museum. On show are personal o...

Musée du 11 septembre 1709

BAVAY

Association Tank De Flesquières

CAMBRAI

It was during the ferocious Great War battle of Cambrai in 1917 that British tanks were used on a large scale for the first time. One of them, Numb...

The Cannoniers Garrison Museum

LILLE

The Musée des Canonniers Sédentaires in the former Clarisse convent traces the military way of life of the Lille garrison, and features famous pers...

THE CORPS DE GARDE MUSEUM

MAUBEUGE

Military Museum

CAMBRAI

This memorial, which stands at one end of the Louverval Military Cemetery, commemorates more than 7,000 servicemen of the UK and South Africa who d...

Museum of the Resistance in the Prohibited Zone

DENAIN

Battle of Fromelles War Museum

FROMELLES

More than 90 years after the Battle, the Fromelles cemetery officially opened on the 19th of July 2010.The bodies of British and Australian soldier...