Nonancourt. School trip to the Caen Memorial. “Pain broke me, fraternity lifted me up, from my wound a river of freedom flowed”. At this quote from the poet Paul Dorey, inscribed on the facade of the Caen memorial, the students of the two 3rd grade classes at Jean-Claude Dauphin College in Nonancourt could only feel strong emotion.
Essential site
Accompanied by Christine Hervé, Kevin Waeyaert, history and geography teachers and French teachers Enora Bernard and Adrien Eudeline, the college students visited this essential site of our contemporary history on Friday 17 March. The place devoted to peace evokes more particularly the Second World War and the Battle of Normandy.
Two hours of discovery, in complete freedom, gave the young Nonancourtois the opportunity to complete an activity booklet. The students also benefited from educational workshops. Some have worked on the choice between collaboration and the Resistance during the Occupation, others on the course of the Jewish deportees.
In connection with the French program, the poem Freedom by Paul Éluard was a pretext to evoke commitment in such circumstances.
This outing was partly financed by the Association Le Souvenir Français and by the Pass Culturel.
Teachers and students were back at the college: the establishment bears the name of a local resistance fighter who disappeared during the Death Marches in 1945 and whose centenary of his birth was celebrated last year.
