MONUMENT AUX MORTS DE LA GUERRE DE 1870
Paying tribute
2024
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2024
A monument in Nantes paying tribute to those who died in the Franco-German war of 1870-1871.
This memorial to the region's dead in the Franco-German war of 1870-1871 stands at the end of the Cours Saint-Pierre in Nantes. It features a man overcoming an eagle at the top and 4 bronze statues: sailor, artilleryman, infantryman and rifleman. It was inaugurated on April 21, 1897 by Félix Faure, then President, and financed by the Association des Anciens Combattants de 1870-1871. Ransacked by the Germans during the Second World War, it was hidden and then restored.
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