A monument to the outstanding French military and statesman Charles de Gaulle will soon appear in Shchuchin. In honor of the start of construction, the first stone was laid
grodnonews.byThe Ambassador of France to Belarus Nicolas de Lacostas with his wife Maria and the director of the Sedon BLR FLLC Ongan Mordeniz arrived with a pleasant mission to the Shchuchin region.
In the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity, guests were greeted warmly, like old friends. First - a small tour of the architectural pearl, a mandatory visit to the Museum of the History of Shchuchin, where the exposition contains materials about the captain of the French army Charles de Gaulle, who during the First World War (from July to September 1916), after being wounded, was in Shchuchin in a German camp for prisoners of war.