The French are planning a new commemoration to the battle of Agincourt. How should a museum depict a famous defeat?
The battle of Agincourt in 1415 was immortalised in Shakespeare's Henry V as a miraculous underdog English victory over the French.
When the old museum opened on the site in 2001, its exhibition boards said 9,000 English soldiers fought 30,000 French at Agincourt. "Both armies were essentially professional, paid troops so we have a lot of financial records on them - we can find out the size of the armies and even the names of a lot of the soldiers," said Prof Curry.
When she attended the 600th anniversary of the battle in 2015, people came draped in St George's flags.An illustration of the museum which from the autumn will tell the story of Agincourt Prof Curry says the revamp of the museum, the"Centre Historique Medieval", is also an attempt to improve the struggling economy of the region of Pas-de-Calais.
"English people want to know where the castle was that Shakespeare describes in his play, or to visit the battlefield."
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