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Deaths in Capestang.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: Reading Milton Osborne's "Forgotten Deaths in La France Profonde"
(April 2007), reminded me of an experience I had in May 2005.
I was riding a bicycle along the Canal du Midi from Sete to Carcassonne in southern France. My companions were a fellow Australian from Sydney, a German couple, and our young female Austrian guide. Between the towns of Beziers and Narbonne we stopped for lunch at the large village of Capestang. While sitting in the village square eating a picnic lunch I noticed a memorial on a plinth on the eastern side of the beautiful thirteenth-century Gothic church of St Etienne. It was in memory of a number of Frenchmen executed by the SS as a reprisal. As I did not wish to offend the German couple I waited until they wandered away and quickly took a photograph of it. Under the heading of ...
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...Australia's natural wonders were painted by Augustus Earle and Eugene von Guerard. Earle depicted the steeply cascading "Wentworth Falls" while von Guerard portrayed the panoramic "Mount William From Mount Dryden, Victoria." America's marvels were painted...
Source: HighBeam Research, Deaths in Capestang.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)