Located at the foot of the Cross of Lorraine in Colombey-les-deux-Églises, the Charles de Gaulle Memorial adds the finishing touch to a historic tour including General de Gaulle's family home and grave. It is more than a traditional presentation of the man famous for the call…

Designed to echo the festive season, it has the finest collection of 18th-century Neapolitan Nativity scenes in France. The layout is traditional. Around the Holy Family are numerous little figures representing Neapolitan society and, walking through the group, are the Three…

The lower chambers in the former Palace of the Counts of Champagne (13th and 14th centuries) house the archaeological, historical and art collections of the municipal museum. Set up in 1794 with pieces confiscated during the French Revolution, the museum had an eventful history.…

The Turrets are the jewels in the crown that is Chaumont's architecture, their slender outlines pointing skywards and breaking up the line of façades on the old houses. There are more than 30 in all, some with rounded corbelling, others more rigid with austere vertical lines.…

Situated in the newly built station area, just a stone's throw from the Cinema Complex and set up in the old Banque de France, the new Graphics National Centre will open its doors at the autumn 2016. The GNC aims to preserve and exhibit collections, to foresee their growth, to…

On his death on 9th November 1970, General de Gaulle was buried in the cemetery in Colombey-les-deux-Églises. He lies there today, with his wife Yvonne, who died in November 1979, and his daughter Anne, who died in 1948 at the age of 20. The simplicity and lack of decoration…

After the murder of 2 German soldiers on 19th August 1944, 21 men and 1 woman from Colombey were taken hostage and transferred to Chaumont to be sentenced. Another person who had been arrested earlier was added to the group. During an interrogation lasting for 4 days, the…

The Town Council decided on its construction on 26th August 1918. Created by sculptor, Constant Roux (1865-1929), it was erected to "consecrate the close Franco-American friendship established in Chaumont". Haute-Marne and all its towns and villages contributed to the building…

It was rebuilt in 1870 over the ruins of an old chapel. The statue of the Virgin Mary on top of the building was put there in 1873. It came from the Méchineix convent in the forest, which lay within the boundary of Treix. The convent was closed in 1870.

Located on the banks of the River Suize at the foot of a spur of rock topped by the village, this is a reminder that the town's heavily-laden washerwomen used to have a long difficult walk here in order to wash their household's clothes etc. It is a vast construction consisting…