Henri weil charles trenet biography

Eighty years after Oradour-sur-Glane was burned to the ground, traces of those who lived there remain. The streets are strewn with bed frames, bicycles and the occasional car, frozen in time. And there are sewing machines, dozens of them, lying where they were last used, littered among the ruins of the small French village.

It was here, on June 10, 1944, four days after the Allies first landed in Normandy, that 643 civilians, including 247 children, were shot or burned alive by retreating Nazi troops. Visitors say the smell of smoke still lingers in the air.

On June 10, 2024, Emmanuel Macron came to pay homage to the dead in the fully preserved village near Limoges.

“We must confront our history,” the French president said in his speech. A few minutes later, as Macron walked through the charred ruins, a reporter from the French daily Le Monde overheard him speaking to a businessperson.

“I’ve pulled the pin and lobbed my grenade

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