CEMETERY OF THE FORGOTTEN
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Cemetery of the Forgotten, where patients from Cadillac's psychiatric hospitals and specialized institutions are buried
The fate of the "broken faces" was fully revealed by Marc Dugain's novel La Chambre des officiers published in 1999, then brought to the screen in 2001 by François Dupeyron. The broken faces of the 1914-1918 war lasted as long as they could, but they returned to civilian life. Unfortunately, for some, this return proved impossible and these face and brain mutilated people found themselves in psychiatric hospitals or specialized institutions. The psychiatric hospital of Cadillac in Gironde was one of those establishments to which soldiers were sent after the war, these soldiers were wounded in the same way as the domain of Moussy-le-Vieux in Seine-et-Marne or that of Coudon in the Var. Due to the large number of deaths caused by the war and the post-war period at the Cadillac hospital, the municipal cemetery could no longer be sufficient to bury his dead: so a vineyard field was allocated to the hospital to bury his patients. Among the forest of 900 rusty crosses made anonymous by time and abandonment, a square inscribed as a Historic Monument has been reserved for "brain mutilated", former soldiers of the First World War.
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