Puducherry [India], November 12 (ANI): French Ambassador to India, Thierry Mathou, and France’s Deputy Ambassador to Puducherry, Talbot Barre, visited the war veterans’ memorial on the beach road.
November 11 commemorates the end of World War I. The war ended on November 11, 1918.
On their visit, the officials paid their tributes by placing a wreath at the memorial. The national anthems of India and France were played and a moment of silence was observed as a tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives.
“At Pondichery in this 11Novembre to pay tribute to the French soldiers of Pondicherry who died for France and to the 90,000 soldiers India who fought in France during the First World War. France honours their memory. Let us forge, thanks to the lessons of the past, the keys to the future,” the French Ambassador to India wrote on ‘X’.
The French War Memorial in Puducherry is…
