Cahors. The French Cornflower also grows in the Lot

As the commemorations of November 11 approach, a day of homage to all those who “died for France”, the port of Le Bleuet directly demonstrates your support for this national work. From Friday November 1st to Monday November 11th, you will meet volunteers from veterans' associations, elected officials and even young people from municipal councils on the public roads who are mobilizing to collect your donations. Bleuet collections are special moments for meetings between generations, moments of citizenship and solidarity. Your generosity can also be expressed throughout the year on the official website of the Bleuet de France endowment fund. You can also get involved in this national work by collecting Bleuet de France in your town. To do this, contact the Lot departmental service of the National Office for Combatants and War Victims who will issue you with a collector's card authorizing you to collect money on public roads as well as the necessary equipment. Cornflower, flower of remembrance and solidarity, takes root in the mud of the trenches of the Great War. The first world conflict left behind 1.4 million French dead and 20 million wounded and disabled. Faced with this national ordeal, two women, Charlotte Malleterre and Suzanne Leenhardt, had the idea in 1925 of creating a workshop for making fabric flowers within the Institut National des Invalides where they were nurses. The work, carried out by the former Poilus, is both the means of restoring meaning to broken lives, but also of obtaining an income thanks to the sale of flowers on the public highway.

It is a symbol of hope also echoing the horizon blue uniform worn by a damaged young generation.