Well thanks to the great folks on Tripadvisor I have discovered that monument in Fontainbleau is really not in Fontainbleau but near Arbonne-la-Foret. Special thanks to Mrs. French and French Mystique from Tripadvisor for sharing their knowledge and helping find this monument.
It is a memorial for 36 civilians and resistance fighters that were massacred by the Germans after the release of Fontainbleau in 1944 and World War II. See included wiki link for further details. Such a shame for the lost life's of this war.
The massacre of 36 civilians and resistant
July 21 and August 17, 1944, six days after the release of Fontainebleau, thirty-six civilians and resistance fighters were released from prison in Fontainebleau, where they were tortured. Brought her hands tied in the back with sand pits of plain Chanfroy, they are executed by the Germans and summarily buried in two mass graves. December 7, 1944, when they come looking for sand Chanfroy the U.S. military discovered the first grave.
There were seven survivors who could not get into the truck for lack of space. The 36th shot has never been identified.
State funeral took place on December 14 at Fontainebleau where it installs a mortuary chapel in the covered market.
The two pits were never filled to keep here the solemnity of meditation.
A ceremony pays tribute to every third Sunday of August.
I believe that my parents probably visited this monument around the 3'rd week in August since there are so many flags of ceremony surrounding it.
