Rossignol Wood Cemetery

Rossignol Wood (French Bois de Rossignol, or "Nightingale Wood") is a forest northeast of Hébuterne, France. It is the site of a small World War I cemetery.

Village[edit]

Bois de Rossignol is also a small village known for Le Petit Chancon, a small tavern rated in one undated Guide Michelin with three crossed spoons and forks, and one star. The tavern was mentioned in Gerald Durrell's story "The Michelin Man" in his autobiographical book The Picnic And Suchlike Pandemonium.^[1]

References[edit]

^ Durrell, Gerald (1979). The Michelin Man (Microsoft Word 97-2003 document). Collins. Retrieved 2017-09-20. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

External links[edit]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission site
http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/gommecourt.html
Rossignol Wood Cemetery at Find a Grave

50°07′47″N 2°39′56″E / 50.1296°N 2.6655°E / 50.1296; 2.6655

[1] Durrell, Gerald (1979). The Michelin Man (Microsoft Word 97-2003 document). Collins. Retrieved 2017-09-20. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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