Board Members
Gérard Longuet
President of the CMP, Senator
Thibaut Villemin
Samuel Hazard
Vice-president of the CMP,
Vice-president of the Lorraine council
Claude LÉONARD
Vice-president of the CMP,
Mayor of Verdun, Meuse Councillor
Jean-Louis Dumont
Vice-president of the CMP,
President of the Meuse Council
Lyne Rousseau
Secretary of the CMP,
Member of the nation assembly
Treasurer of the CMP, President of the
organisation “14/18 Meuse“
Dominique Ronga
Jean-Luc Demandre
Board member of the CMP, President of
the organisation “Amis du CMP“
Board Member, President of the
organisation “Connaissance de la Meuse“
Previous visitors to the Centre Mondial de la Paix: Edouard Balladur, Prime minister; Javier de Pérez de Cuellar, UN Secretary-General; Abdoulaye Wade, President
of Senegal; Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algerian President; General Andreas Berg, Commander of the German French Brigade; Stéphane Hessel, French Ambassador; Michel
Tubiana, President of the Human Rights League; Lobsang Nyandak, Tibetan Minister for international relations; Cardinal Vinko Puljic, Archbishop of Sarajevo; Kader Arif,
French Minister for veterans; Christian Poncelet, French President of the Senate; Alain Richard, French Defence Minister; Grand Duke of Luxemburg; Craig Roberts Stapleton,
Ambassador of the USA; Jean-Georges Mandon, President of the foundation German- French Agreement; Marzio Tartini, Consul General of Switzerland; Julius Georg Luy,
German Consul General; Guillaume Garot, French undersecretary of state for nutrition; Jacky Locks, Head of the Lorrain Choir; Aurélie Filippetti, French Culture Minister;
Marthe Cohn, former partisan; Esther Sénot, Auschwitz Survivor; Karl-Heinz Mehler, Former member of the Hitler youth; Gilles Ménage, former director of the French
presidential Cabinet, Director of the institute “François Mitterrand”; Ulrich Commercon, Minister of Education of Saarland; General Elrick Irastorza, President of “Mission du
centenaire”; Wolfgang Lukas Strohmayer, Austrian consul general; Claude Estier, French Minister of Economy end Finances; Roland Dumas, former French Foreign Minister;
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former German Foreign Minister; Danielle Mitterrand, President of the Foundation “France Libertés”; Petru Lucinschi, Präsident of Moldova; Ben
Elissar, Israeli Ambassador; Hassan Abouyoub, Moroccan Ambassador; Peter Hartmann, German Ambassador; General de Lapresle, Governor of the Invalided; Gotovdorjiin
Louzan, Mongolian Ambassador; Latif Pedram, Afghan presidential candidate; Nissim Zvili, Israeli Ambassador; Faïza Kefi, Tunisian Ambassador; Xavier Michel, permanent
representative of the International Organisation of La Francophonie in the UNO
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MEUSE
VERDUN
A place of commemoration for 1914 to 1918
and the German-France relations
9 cooperating facilities
Delegation for History of the
General Council of department
Meuse
Atelier Canopé
Site de Meuse
Exhibitions, conferences, symposiums, exhibition of historical books, exhibition of teaching
materials, Young Readers Award, German film festival, international Peace Congress,
Humanitarian Christmas Market, film clubs.
Organisation “14/18 Meuse”
German-French
ONAC de la Meuse
Mémorial de Verdun
(during their restoration)
Organisation “Amis du CMP”
Reconciliation
Souvenir Français
erdun, a symbol of conflict between
Germany and France. Verdun, a symbol
of friendship between Germany and France.
A multitude of exhibitions devoted to the
history of the two countries, their friendship
and its driving force in the construction
of a European community.
V
Organisation “La Sauvegarde du
Champ de Bataille”
Organisation “Traditions
Meusiennes”
1 Location
 4 Stations
► 30th anniversary of the gesture of
Human Rights
and temporary conflicts
U
nderstand our changing
world and defend our Human
Right and freedoms through
exhibitions, conferences and
first-hand testimonies…
► 12th three-yearly exhibition of
political posters
► “With the victims of war”
Verdun, between Kohl and Mitterrand
Together for Peace!
►The Bishop’s Palace in Verdun, one of the most complete examples in France
►18th Century architecture (Robert de Cotte, Chief architect at the French royal court)
►Baroque garden
►Military Hospital during WWI (first face-
surgery ward)
►Exhibitions over 2000 m²
►Reception rooms with space for 200-300 people
Verdun, a symbolic town
►1984 : Capital of World peace, hand-shake between Mitterrand and Kohl
the fall of the Berlin Wall
S
ituated in the ancient Bishop’s Palace
the Centre Mondial de la Paix offers an
exceptional setting for your events.
Our rooms can be modified and adapted to
suit your needs.
Cinema with 100 seats.
► conferences,
symposiums, seminars,
general meetings
► product launches,
book-signings
►843 : Treaty of Verdun
►1916 : Battle of Verdun
► The 25th anniversary of
Business
tourism
A unique
Site
Photographs by Jean
Mohr
► “Different views
of Mali”
►concerts, theatre,
performances
The Centenary of
Excellence
World War I
« Que reste t-il de la Grande
Guerre ? » - “What remains of the Great
War?” is the largest exhibition of the First
World War in Eastern France. The exhibition
features original objects in a variety of different
media, designed especially for the Centenary of
WWI.
Various commemorative events will take place
from 2014 to 2018. Unique in France, the CMP is a
memorial centre of national expertise.
of Lorraine
T
hanks to the links
which the CMP has
with the local area, young
Lorraine talents are able to
display their works, in the exhibition
“Excellence Lorraine” and invite you
to an unforgettable experience.
► CERFAV “Centre européen de recherches et
de formation aux arts verriers”