Champenoux National Cemetery
La nécropole nationale de Champenoux. © ECPAD
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Champenoux national cemetery contains the remains of soldiers who died for France during the Battle of Grand Couronné in September 1914. Created in 1919, this military cemetery preserves the memory of those extremely violent battles, as does the cemetery in Courbesseaux. Today 2,862 bodies - including that of a French soldier who died for his country during the Second World War - lie in this cemetery, which was built between 1919 and 1935. One thousand six hundred soldiers lie in individual graves, and 1,261 others have been buried in two ossuaries.
At the centre of the cemetery, a monument dedicated to the “heroes of the Grand Couronné” has been erected. Created in 1921 by local artists, the architect Alfred Thomas and the sculptor Eugène Gatelet, this work in bronze, stone and golden mosaic depicts a mother mourning her departed son. The Croix de Guerre (War Cross), bearing an Adrian helmet and an olive branch - the symbol of peace and victory - reminds us of the sacrifice of this son, who died for France.
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Champenoux
Au nord-est de Nancy, N 74
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