Identifying them, giving them back an identity, a semblance of soul, such is the mission of Dr. Bruno Frémont, on the battlefields, in Verdun.
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“NOTDon’t look down too much when you walk. » The strange thoughtfulness of Dr. Bruno Frémont is explained by an imminent risk: falling on a bone. We are on the site of the ghost village of Fleury-devant-Douaumont, near Verdun (Meuse). One of the nine communes razed and taken over sixteen times by the Germans during the ten months that the battle lasted. Today, the landscape of the “red zone” resembles in places what it was in 1918, devastated. No longer under the effect of the shelling of 30 million German shells, but under that of a xylophagous beetle of barely a few millimeters: the bark beetle. climate change, “three or four years of summer drought” have caused the proliferation of this species which causes the death of spruce trees planted as a debt by…
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