Jean de Lattre de Tassigny - Memorials

Memorials

Numerous memorials have been erected to the memory of Jean de Lattre. An annual military service, involving serving soldiers, veteran associations, and ceremonial carriage of the Marshal's baton, takes place at the graves of the de Lattre family in Jean de Lattre's birthplace of Mouilleron-en-Pareds.

Read more about this topic:  Jean De Lattre De Tassigny

Famous quotes containing the word memorials:

    “Let these memorials of built stone music’s
    enduring instrument, of many centuries of
    patient cultivation of the earth, of English
    verse ...”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “My titillations have no foot-notes
    And their memorials are the phrases
    Of idiosyncratic music.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)