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French President Emmanuel Macron will pay homage to civilian victims in commemorations Wednesday in Saint-Lo, a Normandy town that became emblematic of losses from Allied bombing when it was razed on June 6 and 7, 1944.

Playwright Samuel Beckett dubbed Saint-Lo “The Capital of the Ruins” after working there with the Irish Red Cross.

Those killed in Saint-Lo included Marguerite Lecarpentier’s older brother, Henri.

When her family subsequently fled Saint-Lo, they crossed through what was left of the town.

“When one thinks that they landed on June 6 and that Saint-Lo was only liberated on July 18 and they lost enormous numbers of soldiers.”