Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1914 - 1918
Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le monument (cad. domaine public, non cadastré) : inscription par arrêté du 29 avril 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/04/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument aux morts
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1932
- Architect or builder
- Bourdelle Emile-Antoine (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- cours Foucault
- Commune
- Montauban
- Département
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.02269, 1.34343
- Mérimée reference
- PA82000011
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 LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "37 Montauban." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
En 1921, Bourdelle est chargé du projet de monument aux Morts de la guerre de 14-18. Le monument est inauguré en 1932. La symbolisation de la France, haute figure de bronze de neuf mètres, est la gardienne d'un temple du souvenir, architecture en ciment armé avec douze colonnes.
English translation
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History
In 1921, Bourdelle was entrusted with the project for a monument to the Dead of the 1914-18 war. The monument was inaugurated in 1932. The symbolisation of France, a tall nine-metre bronze figure, is the guardian of a temple of remembrance, a reinforced concrete structure with twelve columns.
Nearby in the register
- Hospicehospiceunder 1 mi
- Ancien marché de Villebourbonmarchéunder 1 mi
- Ancien pontpontunder 1 mi
- Hôtel Le Franc de Pompignanhôtelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.