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Vienne
Isère
Rhône-Alpes

Place Pierre Semard

Monument aux Morts

War Memorial 1914-18

Claude Grangé
1923

Description

Stone statue of an angel with his arms stretched out, flanked by two columns with bronze cauldrons inscribed with the names of the battlefields. The columns are (later) inscribed with the dates of both world wars. The whole is placed on a base with reliefs of soldiers on the corners and texts on the faces. Before the front faces lies the statue of a dead soldier.

Vienne - Monument aux Morts

Inscription(s)

PASSANT SOUVIENS TOI

a la memoire et a la gloire des combattants
de la grande guerre

av cinqvante devxieme mois d'vne gverre sans precedent ..... nos
trovpes animees dv plvs pvr esprit de sacrifice donnant l'exemple d'vne svblime endvrance
et d'vn heroisme qvotidien ont rempli la tache qve levr avait confiee la PATRIE.....
forcant la victoire elles ont apres vne offensive decisive de qvatre mois bovscvle
battv et jete hors de FRANCE la pvissante armee allemande et l'ont contrainte a
demander la paix

11 Novembre 1918
ph. petain

Vienne - Monument aux Morts

Sculptor

Claude Grangé (Vienne 1883 - Paris 1971), French sculptor (WikiGebweb).

Sources & Information

Université de Lille, Les monuments aux morts, France-Belgique.

Locatie (N 45°31'17" - E 4°52'25") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra229; Photograph: 15 August 2018
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