On a hillside, high above the Artoir plain in northern France, lies Notre Dame de Lorette,

France's largest military cemetery from the Great War.

In our latest trench chat, we're joined by military historian Mathilde Bernaday

to discuss France's remembrance of the Great War

and her work at the Memorial 1418 Museum

located on those Artois battlefields.

Welcome to another trench chat on the old front line

and I'm really pleased this week to have Matilde Bernaday

from the Memorial Catoz this week at L'Anse, near Arras, joining us.

Bienvenu, Matild, welcome.

Thank you, Paul.

Thank you.

So I always start these and ask people, you know, what is your connection to the First World?

Where did your interest in it lie?

Well, I think that, like many French, I have a personal connection to the Great War.

I have a few ancestors who thought some of them died during the Great War.

But like many French as well, it's a story that I didn't really know until recently.

So my interest for the First World War is part of a larger passion for history really.

And I studied history and during my master's I started to focus more on the First World War

because I was really fascinated by the experience how these men left a civilized modern world to fight in trenches to experience

violence, death, and then went back to some kind of normal life. And while slowly my interest

went from this experience to the aftermath of the war, how do you cope with it? And all the consequences

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