As it was 11 November – a national holiday in France – we went to the local military cemetery – Le Nécropole Nationale in Luynes.
It is home to the graves of 8,347 French soldiers who died in World War I and 3,077 who were killed in World War II – largely in the operation to free Provence from the Nazis which began on 15 August 1944.
There are lots of fighters from the French Empire buried there – from North Africa and Madagascar.
It was, as in Lyon, a very moving experience.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 