Not a single street in France Ptain

The small town of Tremblois-lès-Carignan, of just 114 inhabitants, located in the department of the Ardennes in northeastern France, was the last in this country in having a street named after Marshal Petain. The military hero during the First World War but remembered for having presided over the second race the Vichy regime that collaborated with the Nazis, and was named one of three avenues of the town, a road just 200 meters.

Finally, the council has decided to get rid of that annoying distinctive. A mid-month to officially change the name plate of the problematic character. The mayor, Jean-Pol independent Oury, met in early December at a special council to address the issue of urgency, following a controversy born of the revelation by a local newspaper of the existence of this street.

The government delegation of the Bulge had joined the criticism of the defense associations in memory of those deported and sent an email a few days before the municipality, requesting him to end the situation. Finally, the decision was taken unanimously by the nine city councilors who opted for the neutral nickname Belle-Croix Street, in reference to the chapel at the end of the road.

A village of three streets, "To us it was like to be called Pétain or otherwise," says the mayor of the town since 1995. "We voted unanimously decision to be quiet," says Oury, who says that as a result of the mediation of this case came to receive anonymous threatening letters. "Until then we will not bother anyone, we are just a hundred people in a town with three streets with names of three heroes of the First World War," he concludes.

The street of contention was baptized in 1920, before Philippe Pétain became head of the collaborationist France. The military completed the trio of quarterbacks and Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch, the three recognized as heroes during the First World War, names that were attributed to the three streets.

Pétain then honored to be distinguished by directing the battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest and most symbolic of the conflict of 1914-1918, a town located just 50 miles Tremblois-lès-Carignan.

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