Colombey-les-Deux-Églises – a small village in Haute-Marne which achieved fame as the home and burial site of Charles de Gaulle,
who bought a large property here in 1934. He retired here in 1969 and died the following year. The 44m high Cross of Lorraine was
erected in 1970, just outside the village to commemorate his distinguished wartime role as commander of the Free French Forces,
and a memorial museum was inaugurated in 2008 by Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.