Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918
Terrasson-Lavilledieu, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le monument aux morts en totalité (cad. AH non cadastré, domaine public, cf plan annexé à l'arrêté) : inscription par arrêté du 21 octobre 2014
- Protection dates
- 2014/10/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument aux morts
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 20e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Graff (sculpteur), Carrié (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de la Libération
- Commune
- Terrasson-Lavilledieu
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.12906, 1.30441
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000090
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
À lorigine, deux monuments aux morts ont été érigés dans la ville en raison de dissensions politiques opposant la ville haute et la ville basse. Dans les années 1950, les monuments ont été regroupés et installés au centre de la commune. Lédifice actuel présente une famille, le père, qui a perdu sa jambe à la guerre, entourant sa fillette. Derrière eux, la mère sappuie sur le soc de la charrue quelle a utilisée pendant toute la durée du conflit et que, peut-être, elle va devoir reprendre en raison de linvalidité de son mari. La fillette et les gerbes de blé symbolisent, cependant, lespoir en lavenir.
English translation
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History
Originally, two war memorials were erected in the city due to political disagreements opposing the upper town and the lower town. In the 1950s, the memorials were regrouped and installed in the centre of the commune. The present structure depicts a family, the father, who has lost his leg in the war, surrounding his little daughter. Behind them, the mother leans on the ploughshare which she used throughout the entire duration of the conflict and which, perhaps, she will have to take up again due to her husband's disability. The little girl and the sheaves of wheat symbolise, however, hope for the future.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien Pontpontunder 1 mi
- Maison Renaissancemaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Sourégliseunder 1 mi
- Château du Frayssechâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.