JCDecaux,world leader in external communication,felt duty-bound to support the Musée de la Grande Guerre,whose objectives and values it shares: transmission of a strong message to a wide French and international public and provision of an innovative showcase that sheds unexpected light on a crucial event in our common history.

As heir to the Service Cinématographique des Armées [SCA] set up in 1915,the Etablissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense,ECPAD,conserves and restores an audiovisual heritage comprising over 4 million photographs and 23,500 films. Among its collections of archives,the institution has digitalized all those concerning the First World War,and is therefore to be considered as a natural scientific and cultural partner of Pays de Meaux’s Musée de la Grande Guerre.
 

As a bank of sustainable relations,Crédit Agricole was duty-bound to become a partner of this place of memory. It has become so in participating in the symbolic act of planting a forest of cedar trees,token of longevity and of faith in the future.
 

The Musée de la Grande Guerre is a project on a major scale with regard to the duty of memory that is incumbent upon us all. The sacrifice made by our grandparents has marked our history indelibly. Beyond that,it has helped raise awareness of the need to create a European area as the keystone of our common future.
 

At a time when the last living witnesses have all but disappeared,the Musée de la Grande Guerre in Pays de Meaux will bear witness to that terrible conflict for coming generations. New technologies obviously have an essential role in facilitating such transmission of memory and perpetuating our country’s history. In sponsoring the Musée de la Grande Guerre in Pays de Meaux,France Télécom-Orange affirms its responsibility in terms of solidarity and contributes to the creation of direct dialogue with society as a whole.
 

Taxi drivers have made regular appearances in the history of our country. The logistics of the Battle of the Marne is one example of the fact,when drivers from a whole range of geographic and ethnic origins played a decisive role in the French victory. The TAXIS G7 company,emblematic as it is of the Parisian taxi,wanted to pay tribute to the men and women who provide the community with an essential service in all weathers and circumstances.

This impressive and altogether admirable project highlights the importance of the duty of memory,along with the values that we have in common. The METIN Group’s activities have always centred on the notion of mobility – the importance of which was well illustrated by the Marne taxis episode in 1914.
 

This donation is in memory of our great-grandfather,Auguste LUCAS,who fought at Verdun and was awarded the Cross of War.

The CASINO Group,leaders in distribution set up in France in 1898,wanted to make a contribution to the creation of the Musée de la Grande Guerre. The museum will provide the present generation and generations to come with a better understanding of what soldiers from all the nations involved had to live through,of the events that led to this 1st worldwide conflict,and of its consequences. The project is a truly original initiative,as much for its subject as for the quality of the collection,documents and iconography on display,and deserves to be made the very best of and provided with full...