The home of the victor of the battle of the Marne.

This museum was built in the house where Field Marshall JOFFE, victor of the famous Battle of the Marne, was born.  The rustic aspect of the era has been preserved; the museum holds a captivating collection of documents, statues, objects, souvenirs …

Joseph J.C. JOFFRE, Field Mashall of France.  Born 12th January 1852 at Rivesaltes, died 3rd January 1931.  He rests at Louveciennes (near Paris).

Student at the select engineering school, Polytechnique, he chose military engineering.  He had a particularly remarkable colonial career, in the Far East, at Formose, in Tonkin and in Africa, in Timbuktu that he conquered and in Madagascar.

Generalissimo in the French Army at the start of the Great War, he won, after having gone into ordered retreat, the famous VICTORY OF THE MARNE which saved Paris and France (6th and 11th September 1914).