Tourism

The Old-or Hartmannswillerkopf Armand, is a battlefield of World War almost intact. The Old-Armand is the name of a hill in the Vosges Valley Cernay (68) where heavy fighting took place in 1915. Hartmannswillerkopf nicknamed by the Germans, the battlefield remains largely unknown because overshadowed by the great names of the war, such as Verdun, Artois and the Chemin des Dames. However, he played a significant role and it was the scene of the fighting are among the deadliest of the war. Not by the number of victims, which is estimated at about 30,000 - but the intensity of the struggles of a true "pocket handkerchief."

Prince atypical Hundred Years War, half way between France and England, Gaston Phoebus (1331-1391) was a warrior, political and philanthropist, author of the famous Book of Hunting, and particularly determined to stage his own magnificence. The Cluny Museum - National Museum of the Middle Ages (Paris), devotes an exhibition, an opportunity to (re) discover a complex and ultimately ignored, and a period, both rich and troubled history of France.

Often overlooked or confused with that of its neighbor Greece, the story of Alexander the Great and ancient Macedonia is currently on display at the Louvre around some five hundred works from the ^fifteenth century BC to Rome Imperial. An astounding exhibition revealing a rich heritage recently discovered and unknown to the general public.

Often associated, wrongly, in the Middle Ages, witches are still very present in our contemporary imagination. Since at least the modern era, they inspire the artists and are often as a reflection of the image of women in societies. The vast majority of witches are indeed witches, even in popular beliefs, which are growing in number of practices to combat the evil, the witch and her mistress. Exposure Witches. Myths and Realities aims to present the outlook on three witches, one of the artist, the historian and the ethnologist.

When China emerged as the second world power, the Louvre offers to come back eight hundred years of history, but with an original approach. Indeed, visitors are invited to discover the museum's collection from the Forbidden City on a course that blends Chinese history and history of France, referring to the ancient relations between the two countries from the Middle Ages to the present.

When you think of the date of 911 for the history of the Vikings, the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, signifying the birth of Normandy, who comes to mind. However, the same year and at the other end of Europe, the Vikings signed a treaty as important to their history, this time in Constantinople, the Byzantine emperor. It is therefore ignored by the exposure that Russia Viking Normandie to another? Proposed by the Museum of Normandy as part of the year 1100 in the region.