Just a quick photo today for Missing Paris Day
which has been absent for a bit.
This memorial happens to be in the Passy Cemetery
in the 16th arrondissement but
most little villages in France
have one of these somewhere along the road
memorializing the villagers lost to the
"Great War."
Most churches in France,
somewhere within,
have a list of names of the lost souls
inscribed on its walls
with the dates 1914-1918.
Inevitably, on these walls
we usually find The Chef's family name
often with a slight variation of letters.
When you see these memorials
standing alone on the side of the road
at the entrance to a small village,
often with a little pot of flowers,
it evokes a sweetness but mostly a sadness.
Yesterday, July 28th in the year 1914
marked the beginning of "The War to End All Wars."
Would that it were so.
(Photo copyright: Kirsten Steen)