In time for November 11th! The little orphaned schoolboy from Gentioux, who spent many months in a restoration workshop, has just found his rightful place on the Limousin plateau on Monday, November 4. The highlight of a more global facelift on the monument. But also its security. An operation made necessary in the face of the gradation of demands around this century-old symbol with multiple uses. An issue of social cohesion for the municipality and memory for the entire region. The opportunity also for the State to make an unprecedented gesture in favor of this heritage which has long strained it.
You can't make this up: children's cries were coming from the playground at the very moment the van parked on the main square in Gentioux… Calmly lying in the back, another schoolboy, 101 years old this one. – there, and that everyone knows rather standing with his fist raised: the orphan of the war memorial. Back in his country.
