Voie de la Liberté

Borne No. 1, on Utah Beach .

The Voie de la Liberté is a historic route in northern France, Luxembourg and Belgium, which shows the course of the liberation by the Allies after D-Day at the end of the Second World War . The length is 1446 km, each kilometer is marked by a kilometer stone (Borne).

course

• Sainte-Mère-Église
• Utah Beach
• Saint-Lô
• Saint Malo
• Rennes
• Angers
• Chartres
• Fontainebleau
• Reims
• Verdun
• Metz
• Luxembourg
• Bastogne

history

In June 1944, Colonel Guy de la Vasselais, Liaison Officer of the French Armed Forces with the US Army, had the idea of ​​creating this historic route. Completion took place in 1946/47, the grand opening took place on September 18, 1947 in Fontainebleau.

literature

• Comité National de la voie de la liberté (Ed.): La voie de la liberté. De Cherbourg à Bastogne . Paris 1950.
• Ernest C. Deane: Voie de la liberté. Guide historique et touristique . Grandes Éditions Françaises, Paris 1947.
• Pneu Michelin (Ed.): Voie de la liberté. Road to freedom (Carte Historique; No. 265). Clermont-Ferrand 2008, ISBN 978-2-06-700265-4 (reprint of the Clermont-Ferrand 1947 edition; 1 map, 49 × 98 cm)

Web links

Commons : Voie de la Liberté  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Les amis de la voie de la Liberté (English / French)