- Source: Saint-Marcel, Morbihan
Saint-Marcel (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁsɛl] ; Breton: Sant-Marc'hell) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.
Saint-Marcel houses the Museum of the Breton Resistance which commemorates the uprising of the Maquis of Saint-Marcel (3,000 fighters) and 200 Free French SAS parachutists in 18 June 1944, which the French force under command of Colonel Morice (Paul Chenailler), Free French Pierre Bourgoin and André Hue came under German attack.
See also
Communes of the Morbihan department
References
External links
Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
Mayors of Morbihan Association (in French)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Komune di departemen Morbihan
- Quiberon
- Rochefort-en-Terre
- Pluméliau-Bieuzy
- Nièvre
- Drôme
- Dordogne
- Haute-Garonne
- Gard
- Aude
- Saint-Marcel, Morbihan
- Saint-Marcel
- Operation Cooney
- 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41
- 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment
- Rohan, Morbihan
- École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
- 2nd Parachute Chasseur Regiment
- Maquis de Saint-Marcel
- Saint-Jean
