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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:28 pm Post subject: New WW1 Museum in France
Hi all, Just discovered this article about a new WW1 museum near Paris. I read that it has an FT17 on display but I don't know where it came from. Looks worth a visit soon! www.nytimes.com/slides...um_ss.html Tim,

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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:42 pm
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the Renault FT came from there :
http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/ft17_gien/index.html

the barracks and city of Gien, that lost "their tank", are very sorry of this transfer, but I think that it is better for such a tank to be preserved indoors.

Note that the mayor of Meaux, the city where the new museum has opened, is a former Minister of the Budget and is now General Secretary of the Union for a Popular Movement (the political party that enjoys an absolute majority in the National Assembly). His priviledged position in the government allowed him to request that tank to come in "his" museum.

Here is an article about the "lost" of the tank for the city and barracks in Gien ;
http://www.lejournaldegien.fr/actualite/viewArticle.php?idArticle=1803

translated by Google :
http://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lejournaldegien.fr%2Factualite%2FviewArticle.php%3FidArticle%3D1803

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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:36 pm Post subject: Re: New WW1 Museum in France
I'll have an opportunity to visit the museum on 2 December. However, it seems like taking good and clear photos of the FT-17 in the museum will be a bit hard : P-O _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:31 pm Post subject: Re: New WW1 Museum in France
At least a top shot is possible!

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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:19 pm
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Hello,

I visited the museum on last Friday, and here is the gallery showing the Renault FT (that comes from Gien) and some WW1 artillery guns and howitzers :
http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/meaux_ww1museum/

Flash was forbidden and the museum was not well lightened..
There are also two WW1 French airplanes, but I didn't add the pictures in the gallery.

This is a temporary gallery, that doens't appear yet on "Tanks in France", because I'm not on the usual computer which stayed at home.

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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:04 pm Post subject: Re: New WW1 Museum in France
What a weird way to display a tank. Interesting..... Regards Don

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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:25 pm
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- Dontos

What a weird way to display a tank. Interesting.....

Regards
Don

I think that there are two reasons to this :
-to forbid the access to the tank to the general public, maybe because it has cracks on the armour (you can see them on the photos I took).
-to allow the tank to go outside, because there is a door at the back of the "tunnel", that goes outside.

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