In Carhaix, around a hundred people paid tribute to the country’s children who were victims of 1914-18

Around a hundred people followed, this Monday, November 11, the commemorative ceremonies of the end of the First World War, in Carhaix. This time again, the participants formed a procession, flag bearers at the head, from the Place de Verdun, marking a first stop at the cemetery of the church of Plouguer, where the mayor of Carhaix, Christian Troadec, flanked by his deputies Jacqueline Mazéas and Hélène Guillemot, laid a wreath. Then return to Place de Verdun, for a second ceremony.

Heavy toll

Following the president of Fnaca, Antoine Marzin, who notably thanked the children present at the ceremony, Christian Troadec recalled the heavy price paid by Carhaix-Plouguer during this war. “145 Carhaisians and 69 young people from Plouguer gave their lives so that peace could return,” underlined the mayor.

“This ceremony not only pays tribute to those who died in this butchery, it above all symbolizes the safeguarding, in the collective memory, of the sacrifice of peoples to perpetuate peace,” he added, before concluding with a extract from the Breton poet Jean-Pierre Calloc’h, who fell on the field of honor at the age of 28, who recalled “that war is never fresh and joyful”. The crowd present was then invited to the traditional reception in the market halls.