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Sign on the Chemin des Dames
In France, the Chemin des Dames ([ʃə.mɛ̃dedam]; literally, the "ladies' path") is part of the route départementale (local road) D18 and runs east and west in the Aisne department, between in the west, the Route Nationale 2 (Laon to Soissons), and in the east, the D1044 at Corbeny. It is some 30 kilometres (19 mi) long and runs along a ridge between the valleys of the rivers Aisne and Ailette.
It acquired the name in the 18th century, as it was the route taken by the two daughters of Louis XV, Adélaïde and Victoire, who were known as Ladies of France. At the time, it was scarcely a carriage road, but it was the most direct route between Paris and the Château de Boves [Wikidata], near Vauclair, on the far side of the Ailette. The château belonged to Françoise de Châlus, former mistress of Louis XV, Countess of Narbonne-Lara and former lady of honour to Adélaïde, whom the two ladies visited frequently. To make the way easier, the count had the road surfaced, and it gained its new name. The ridge's strategic importance first became evident in 1814 when Napoleon's young recruits defeated an army of Prussians and Russians at the Battle of Craonne.
In France, the ChemindesDames ([ʃə.mɛ̃ de dam]; literally, the "ladies' path") is part of the route départementale (local road) D18 and runs east and...
Champagne. The main offensive was to be delivered by the French on the ChemindesDames ridge (the Second Battle of the Aisne). A subsidiary attack was to...
captured the village and fort of La Malmaison and took control of the ChemindesDames ridge. The German 7th Army (General Max von Boehn) had discovered French...
spring offensive during World War I that focused on capturing the ChemindesDames Ridge before the American Expeditionary Forces arrived completely in...
The Second Battle of the Aisne (Bataille du ChemindesDames or Seconde bataille de l'Aisne, 16 April – mid-May 1917) was the main part of the Nivelle...
Dreyfus survived. He fought in World War I, notably at Verdun and the ChemindesDames, then retired and led a quiet life. He died in 1935 in Paris and was...
tried to drive Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov's 22,000 Russians off the ChemindesDames plateau to the west of Craonne. After a bitter struggle, Napoleon's...
fluency in English. He was responsible for the Nivelle Offensive at the ChemindesDames, which had aroused skepticism already in its planning stages. When...
endurance, but not always of unquestioning obedience. At the disastrous ChemindesDames offensive of 1917 under General Robert Nivelle, they were said to have...
began the Battle of La Malmaison, a long-delayed French attack on the ChemindesDames, by the Sixth Army (General Paul Maistre). The artillery preparation...
Communauté de communes de la Champagne Picarde Communauté de communes du ChemindesDames Communauté de communes de l'Est de la Somme (partly) Communauté de...
residence near the French front, not far from both Soissons and the "ChemindesDames" at Blérancourt, and ran The American Friends of France. It employed...
Veteran who survived the ChemindesDames". The Times. 2008-01-22. Retrieved 2008-04-05. The First World War: The ChemindesDames, Louis de Cazenave: 1897–2008...
forces, preparing for a crucial offensive along the Aisne and the ChemindesDames ridge several days later. The Canadian Corps were to capture the German-held...
of the Ailette river valley at the foot of the northern side of the ChemindesDames, on a site already occupied by a church, in the present commune of...
over the region, but the most impressive examples are at Laon and the ChemindesDames ridge. The department of Aisne includes one medium-sized city (Saint-Quentin)...
offensives and 17 battles. He entered combat on February 5, 1918, at ChemindesDames, north of Soissons, and was under constant fire, day and night for...
force concentration at the Aisne by at least conquering the notorious Chemin-des-Dames positions. Part of the plan was a limited but strategically important...
Quentin and Laon, the Aisne east of Soissons to Cerny en Laonnois on the ChemindesDames ridge. The Hundingstellung (Hunding Position) was to run from Péronne...
November 2019. Marival, Guy (November 2007). "Des bleuets par milliers…" (PDF). La lettre du ChemindesDames n° 12 (in French). Archived from the original...
Battalion No. 7. In this role Friedrichs participated in battles for the ChemindesDames ridge. After the conclusion of the First World War, Friedrichs remained...
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