Notre Dame de Lorette
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[edit] Location
On a 165 meter high ridge where the French fought a long battle with the Germans during World War I, lies one of the major French National Memorials and Cemeteries with Basilica and Lighthouse. The Notre Dame de Lorette is situated near the D 937 north of Arras at the village Ablain-Saint-Nazaire.
[edit] History
A small building was raised in 1727 by the painter Nicolas Florent Guilbert, who had made a successful pilgrimage to Loreto (Italy), to shelter a statue of the Virgin Mary. It was destroyed in 1794, rebuilt in 1816 and transformed in 1880.
[edit] WWI Battle
The bloody battle for this impressive hill started in October 1914 and lasted 12 months until October 1915.
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