In the north of France, around the places where there was fighting in WWI, there are several so-called Village Détruit, disappeared villages. These villages were generally in the so-called Zone Rouge (Red Zone). These villages are seen as 'communes mortes pour la France'. This Red Zone comprised 120,000 hectares and it was forbidden to live or build buildings within this area. This was a bad idea anyway, since these houses would end up on the so-called no man's land. The area between two warring factions. The area around Verdun covered 14,000 hectares of Red Zone. Interestingly, the villages no longer exist, but the municipalities do. In this way there are municipalities in the north of France with a total of 0 inhabitants. Incidentally, it is not equally safe to walk everywhere. In the village of Bezonvaux it is very dangerous to go outside the marked paths. So much ammunition was used during WWI and there were also dozens of duds. Not all the ammunition was removed after WWI, sometimes because it simply cannot be found in the churned up ground. At many Villages Détruit, clear traces of impacts can be seen in the landscape. Some of these villages have been partly rebuilt, as happened at Vaux-devant-Damloup.