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Verdun — City in the Meuse, where an empire was divided in 843 and a front became fixed in 1916
A town on the Meuse where three brothers divided their grandfather’s empire, and a stronghold that became, one thousand and seventy-three years later, the very name of sacrifice: three quarters of the French army passed through its forts and ravines in 1916. (Editorial synthesis)
2 events that took place in Verdun are recorded: the Battle of Verdun and the Treaty of Verdun.
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