[M1903A1]

There were multiple small towns and villages (around a dozen) that were wiped off the face of the earth in the Germans’ opening bombardment. One postwar account was of seeing a sign, nailed to either a post or a shattered tree trunk and surrounded by desolation, with the simple message, in French, “Here was Fleury”...one of the obliterated villages.

[jmacusa]

Yes, you're right. I saw an article about that. I believe there are faint traces of where houses once stood and here and there some paving stones of a front walk way, the remnat of a fence and such. Sad. And eerie.