As part of The commemoration of the centenarian(centenary) of the Great War, the Region wished to bring to municipalities a significant help to allow them to restore in good conditions their monuments to the deaths of First World War.
Indeed, in our region as elsewhere, these monuments, established with a view to perpetuating forever the memory(souvenir) of the deaths for France, are paradoxically threatened by the wear of time(weather) and often suffer from a lack of interview(maintenance) pulling(entailing) important degradations of steles and statues.
However the breaking of plates(patches) while carrying the lists of the deaths, or the slow disappearance of names engraved which shock most and question about our duty of remembrance.
The Region therefore considered necessary to set up a large-scale programme on the scale of the territory to restore this heritage of report(memory), symbol of an intergenerational link.
The device(plan) set up plans(provides for) to grant to every municipality which applies for it an euro of regional subsidy for an euro invested(surrounded) by the municipality. This regional help is accumulative with that granted by the National office of the War veterans and victims de Guerre dependent on the Ministry of Defence.
Regional initiative gets as a duty of remembrance of current generations towards generations sacrificed by war, across the work of restoration(catering) of these monuments: firstly by the re-establishment of the lists of more or less erased(removed) names, then by the restoration(catering) of masonries and often very shaded sculptures, after about a century of existence. Objective also is to help in the realisation as these monuments belong entirely to the cultural heritage and deserve that their restoration(catering) benefits from the same qualitative requirement as the one who prevails ordinarily in patrimonial material(subject), respecting the Charter of Venice and respecting the European convention of 1985 on preservation and restoration(catering) of monuments. To guide municipalities in this new type(chap) of operation for them, the Region and the Interdisciplinary Centre of Preservation and of Heritage restoration of Marseilles drafted a vademecum, with the collaboration of Pole(Centre) Archeomed - Platform of mutualisation devoted to the jobs(businesses) by culture and by heritages – in Arles, for municipalities. This guide of the client supplies a working methodology, a help to the consultation of companies, a railing(bar) of analysis of estimates. The different pathologies of the stone and of the metal are reviewed, with opposite, the best techniques of restoration(catering). A glossary illustrated with changes that can be mentioned in expertises and estimates supplements the guide.