Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870-1871
Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le monument aux morts en totalité (cad. AD 372) : inscription par arrêté du 14 décembre 2012
- Protection dates
- 2012/12/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument aux morts
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1912
- Architect or builder
- Croisy Aristide (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue des Juifs ; place Gambetta
- Commune
- Montreuil
- Département
- Pas-de-Calais
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.46458, 1.76340
- Mérimée reference
- PA62000139
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNational Library of Scotland
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Pas-de-Calais." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce monument, inauguré en octobre 1912, fut réalisé en mémoire des soldats morts au cours de la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870-1871. Le choix se porta sur le modèle du Mobile, soldat de la Garde Mobile. Campé sur un haut socle de pierre, le soldat, en bronze, est représenté en appui sur la jambe droite, le fusil en main, prêt à tirer sur l'ennemi.
English translation
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History
This monument, inaugurated in October 1912, was created in memory of soldiers who died during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. The choice fell on the model of the Mobile, soldier of the National Guard. Positioned on a high stone plinth, the soldier, in bronze, is represented leaning on the right leg, rifle in hand, ready to fire on the enemy.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel-Dieuhôtel-Dieuunder 1 mi
- Caves médiévalesimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Saulveégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Sainte-Austreberteégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.