Today, the schools were closed in celebration of the 1918 Armistice. Below is a statue situated along a main avenue in Montluçon, Avenue Marx Dormoy, which runs between the train station and the castle. The statue was erected on November 11, 1922 and is dedicated to the victims of WWI and also now WWII.
The statue reads: (pretty much every French town, no matter the size, has a war monument and they all refer to the victims as enfants, childen)
À SES ENFANTS
VICTIMES DE LA CHANTE GUERRE
LA VILLE DE MONTLUÇON
RECONNAISSANTE ET DOULOUREUSE
1914-1918
1939-1944
TO THE CHILDREN
VICTIMS TO THE CRY OF WAR
THE CITY OF MONTLUÇON
GRATEFUL AND SORROWFUL
