YMCA Franco-American Friendship Plaque
Details:
Behind the tourism office welcome desk.
A gold colored inscribed plaque.
The plaque remembers the friendship between France and the US thought the YMCA centers in France during WW1.
Monument Text:
The inscription on the plaque is written in French and English. The English reads:
IN COMMEMORATION
OF THE HEROIC DAYS OF THE GREAT WAR
WHEN THE SONS OF FRANCE
AND THE SONS OF AMERICA
SIDE BY SIDE GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR LIBERTY
THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY THE
YOUNG MANS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES
HERE STOOD ONE OF THE 1600 FOYERS DU SOLDAT
OF THE UNION FRANCO-AMERICAINE
CREATED WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE AMERICAN YMCA
