Memorials to visit Denmark

Forty French prisoners of war from the first world war are buried here. A monument salutes their memory and the inscription on the column states that "Grateful Denmark watches over their grave". Several other Danish cemeteries erected a similar monument to the dead after the First World War. On Allegade, the vault and graves of Rudolph Tegner's family are decorated with sculptures by this famous Danish artist whose work is quite similar to that of Bourdelle. He and his wife were buried near Dronningmølle.

In the centre of the avenue stands a 20-metre high obelisk framed by four beauties in togas, symbols of Fidelity, Virtue, Justice and Courage. It was designed in 1797 by Nicolai Abildgaard, a Danish master of art who was very attached to the values of freedom of the French Revolution which he had witnessed during his stay in Paris. The bourgeoisie of Copenhagen wanted to commemorate the abolition nine years earlier by the future Frederick VI of the obligation for peasants to remain in the service of the manor for life, a Danish variant of serfdom.