3 real historical locations · France
En mai, fais ce qu'il te plaît is a WWII film set on the Western Front during 1940. CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning France. Each pin marks the actual place depicted - not where the film was shot, but where the historical events happened.
The 2015 French film follows the civilian exodus of May-June 1940 — eight million people fleeing south on foot and by cart as German tanks advance, an event ...
The Great Exodus (l'Exode) of May-June 1940 saw between six and eight million French and Belgian civilians flee south ahead of the German advance — the largest mass movement of people in European history at that point...
View location →As the Wehrmacht approaches in May 1940, eight million Parisians and northern French civilians take to the roads heading south. The film follows a young Belg...
The Exodus of May–June 1940 was one of history's largest civilian displacements. Up to 12 million people clogged the roads of France. German aircraft strafed refugee columns; disease and starvation claimed hundreds.
View location →The refugee tide crosses the Loire bridges at Orléans before French engineers blow them. Families are separated; the road south becomes a landscape of abando...
The Loire became a psychological boundary for the Exodus — south of the river felt safer. When France signed the armistice on 22 June 1940, many refugees were still stranded far from home.
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