MONUMENT TO THE DEAD AND CHILDREN OF VERDUN
A monument composed of monumental figurations of the five corps of the French army engaged in the Battle of Verdun.
Work of the architect Mathieu Forest and the sculptor Claude Grange, inaugurated in 1928. It stands against the Chaussée, a Vauban work, on the site of the military butchery, destroyed in 1916. It is composed of monumental figurations of the 5 French army corps engaged during the Battle of Verdun: a cavalryman, an engineer, an infantryman (the "Poilu"), an artilleryman and a soldier of the Territorial Army. They symbolize the motto of Verdun: "We do not pass".
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