This plot, inaugurated on 25 June 2000 in the presence of representatives of the French embassy and of French and Polish veterans, is located at the very north of the Powązki military cemetery (plot A-43). It was created on the initiative of the association of Polish veterans "Rhin et Danube" in honour of the French and Polish soldiers of the 1st French Army as well as their supreme commander, Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, and the members of the Resistance. Colonel Jan Skowron, president of the association, a veteran of the French Resistance and a soldier of the 29th Polish Infantry Grouping (GIP), and a painter by profession, is behind the project. The members of the association secured the financing through sponsors, municipal subsidies, the French embassy in Poland as well as the Souvenir Français. The building permit was obtained on 6 April 1998. The construction commission was chaired by Mr Tadeusz Kaczan. The terms of the concession contract were negotiated and settled with the local authorities in October 2000 (in particular for the preservation of the ashes in the crematoria). In 2005, the plot was entered on the list of historic monuments commemorating the French military effort abroad, kept by the Souvenir Français association (whose general delegate in Poland has been Colonel Zygmunt Włodarczyk since March 2009), placed under the patronage of the President of the French Republic.
The plot is made up of several elements: There are 32 graves of veterans and participants in the French Resistance, covered with small white stones and framed by red brick edging, with black granite steles, without tombstone or base. In front, a set of black granite plaques on brick constructions was erected along the high fence of the cemetery. There is also the symbolic grave of Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, who rests at Mouilleron-en-Pareds, from which he came. It is composed of a brick base and a granite slab, and contains an urn with soil from Mouilleron-en-Pareds.
The large central plaque is erected on a small low wall, above this symbolic grave. On the upper part of the large plaque, one can read in Polish then in French, "Plot of the First French Army" beneath a coat of arms of Poland, the "White Eagle", engraved between the dates "1940" and "1945", and to the right of a Cross of Lorraine with a double crossbar. On the central part of the plaque, there is a bust in profile of the marshal (1889-1952) engraved between the coat of arms of the 1st Army and the medal of the 19th and 29th GIP
On either side, two other large plaques covered with a crowning of tiles form a "wall of remembrance" with the names of the deceased soldiers. The plaque on the left bears, beneath the inscription in Polish and in French "They died for Poland and France on French soil 1940-1945", the names of Poles who took part in the Resistance, fallen in France. The one on the right, beneath the inscription "They fought for Poland and France 1940-1945", the names of resistance members as well as of soldiers of the 19th and 29th GIP. At the two ends of this central set, two massive brick crematoria contain the individual funerary urns of the deceased with their names.
All the elements of the plot were designed and made under the direction of the sculptor Bronisław Kubica.
Since 2013, a project to renovate the plot has been underway. It consists of erecting another large plaque dedicated to all the French soldiers who fought or rest in Poland (Napoleonic Wars, prisoners of the wars of 1870-1871, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, operations in Silesia in 1920, Polish-Bolshevik war, etc.). The plaque is being made. The works aim to level the ground, cut the