Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918, situé près de l'église
Misson, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le monument aux morts en totalité (cad. C 90, 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
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1920
- Architect or builder
- Cazalis (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Misson
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.58761, -0.96161
- Mérimée reference
- PA40000086
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1856 map "Dept. Des Landes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Lédifice, encadré déléments végétaux, est appuyé contre le mur extérieur du cimetière. Réalisé suivant les plans de larchitecte Cazalis, il est achevé le 28 novembre 1920. Il se compose dune stèle avec un fronton semi-circulaire, cantonnée de colonnes sur lesquelles sont inscrites les dates des principales batailles de la guerre. Plusieurs éléments sculptés (médaillon avec profil de poilu, palmes, guirlandes, têtes de lion) décorent la face principale.
English translation
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History
The edifice, framed by vegetation elements, is set against the exterior wall of the cemetery. Built according to the plans of architect Cazalis, it was completed on 28 November 1920. It consists of a stele with a semi-circular pediment, flanked by columns on which are inscribed the dates of the principal battles of the war. Several sculptured elements (medallion with the profile of a poilu, palms, garlands, lion heads) decorate the main face.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.