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Notre Dame de Lorette is the name of a ridge, basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
, and cemetery northwest of Arras
Arras

Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard language dialect....
 at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire
Ablain-Saint-Nazaire

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire is a Communes of France in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France in northern France....
. The high point of the hump-backed ridge stands 165 metres high and - with Vimy Ridge - utterly dominates the otherwise flat Douai plain and the town of Arras.

The ground was strategically important during the First World War
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 and was bitterly contested in a series of long and bloody engagements between the opposing French and German armies.






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Notre Dame de Lorette is the name of a ridge, basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
, and cemetery northwest of Arras
Arras

Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard language dialect....
 at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire
Ablain-Saint-Nazaire

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire is a Communes of France in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France in northern France....
. The high point of the hump-backed ridge stands 165 metres high and - with Vimy Ridge - utterly dominates the otherwise flat Douai plain and the town of Arras.

The ground was strategically important during the First World War
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 and was bitterly contested in a series of long and bloody engagements between the opposing French and German armies. It was the focal point of three battles:

  • First Battle of Artois
    First Battle of Artois

    First Battle of Artois The First Battle of Artois was an encounter battle during the Race to the Sea. While the exact dates of the battle vary from source to source, it certainly took place during the autumn of 1914....
     (27 September–10 October, 1914) - an encounter battle during the Race to the Sea
    Race to the Sea

    The Race to the Sea was a name given to a period of World War I when, on the Western Front, the two sides were still engaged in mobile warfare....
    .
  • Second Battle of Artois
    Second Battle of Artois

    The Second Battle of Artois, of which the British contribution was the Battle of Aubers Ridge, was a battle on the Western Front of World War I, it was fought at the same time as the Second Battle of Ypres....
     (9 May–15 May, 1915) - French attack towards Vimy Ridge.
  • Third Battle of Artois
    Third Battle of Artois

    The Third Battle of Artois was a battle on the Western Front of World War I, is also known as the Loos-Artois Offensive, including the major British Battle of Loos....
     (25 September–15 October, 1915) - also known as the Artois-Loos Offensive.


The Battles of Artois were as costly in French lives as the better-known Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun

The Battle of Verdun was one of the most critical List of World War I Battles in World War I on the Western Front . It was fought between the German Army and France armies, from 21 February to 15 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun in northeastern France....
. With Verdun
Verdun

Verdun is a city in the Meuse Departments of France in Lorraine in northeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although it is not the capital, but the slightly smaller Bar-le-Duc....
, Notre Dame de Lorette became a national necropolis, sacred ground containing the graves of thousands of French and Colonial
French colonial empires

The French colonial empire was the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule from the 1600s to the late 1960s. In terms of land area, the Empire reached its height of 12,347,000 km? after World War One....
 fallen, as well as an ossuary, containing the bones of those whose names were not marked. In total, the site contains the remains of nearly 40,000 soldiers, as well as the ashes of many concentration camp victims.

History

A small building was raised in 1727 by the painter Nicolas Florent Guilbert, who had made a successful pilgrimage to Loreto
Loreto (AN)

Loreto is a hilltown and comune of the Italy province of Ancona, in the Marche. It is mostly famous as the seat of the Basilica della Santa Casa, a popular Catholic pilgrimage site....
 (Italy), to shelter a statue of the Virgin Mary. It was destroyed in 1794, rebuilt in 1816 and transformed in 1880.

033 Notre Dame De Lorette, Souchez, France

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