MEMORIAL OF GENERAL DE SONIS
A memorial located on the edge of the Beauce region, presenting the violent confrontations between the French and Prussians at Loigny-la-Bataille.
On the edge of the Beauce region, on the border with the Loiret, the Eurelian land was the scene of violent confrontations between the French and Prussians during the 1870 war. It is this history that is commemorated every year, at the beginning of December, at the Croix de Sonis and at the church of Loigny-la-Bataille. The figure of General Louis-Gaston de Sonis is particularly celebrated, as he lies in the crypt, next to the bones of more than 1,200 French and German soldiers who fell in battle. At the head of the Pontifical Zouaves (whose name the nearby wood bears), he led the assault and spent the night of 2 December 1870 on the battlefield, wounded in the leg. There is a magnificent painting of this motif in the church.
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