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September 2020
Saturday 19
08:30 - 22:30
Sunday 20
08:30 - 22:30
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La Borne Sacrée

37130 Cinq-Mars-la-Pile
  • Indre-et-Loire
  • Centre-Val de Loire

Visit of the Sacred Post

History of the Sacred Earth Landmark
19 and 20 September 2020Passed

The Sacred Land Monument is the name given to a set of six monuments dedicated to the French and allied deaths of the First World War. They are due to the idea and work of the French sculptor Gaston Deblaize, former hairy. Each of these blocks contains land from twelve different battlefields of war 14 - 18. These kiosks are located in France and the United States:

  • Chapel of the Simple Soldat in the church of Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris, inaugurated in 1928,
  • Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington. Offered to American Veterans in March 1929, it contains battlefield land where the American Expeditionary Force fought,
  • Guernic reef on the island of Théviec, off the Quiberon peninsula. Built facing America and dedicated to American troops, it was inaugurated in August 1931. Mothers of American soldiers killed on the front came to gather there in 1934. It was destroyed by German fire in 1942 and rebuilt in 1964,
  • Village of Cinq-Mars-la-Pile in Indre-et-Loire. In honour of the American general Robert H. Dunlap who fought in Argonne and Soissons. He died in 1931 trying to save a woman caught in a landslide at Cinq-Mars-la-Pile,
  • Plage de la Terre sacrée, in Vignola, Ajaccio (Corsica) dedicated to the 48,000 Corsican dead (as indicated on the monument) inaugurated in 1933. A bas relief represents the death of Private Alexander, killed on October 8, 1918,
  • Village de Meures en Haute-Marne (village where Gaston Deblaize lived) opened in 1933.
    Renée Deblaize, widow of Gaston Deblaize, offered to the Amicale des anciens of the 356th Infantry Regiment in which her husband had served a seventh post which was installed in the wood the Priest in July 1935, A few months after the death of Gaston Deblaize and where this regiment had spent two years during the war. It was vandalized in 1974 and a new bollard installed in 1976.
    A replica of that of the Guernic reef, difficult to access, was created at Fozo on the commune of Saint-Pierre-Quiberon in 1997.
    A small square in front of the monument of Meures is planted with wheat whose tradition was that it be harvested on the 1st Sunday of July of the following year and that the sheaves collected be deposited in front of the other five monuments of the Sacred Land.
    From now on, tradition will require that every year at harvest, the good wheat ripening at the bedside of the Borne de Meures be gathered in sheaves of gold, to be laid godly before the Stations of the Sacred Earth of Arlington, the Invalides, the Guernic, the Cinq-Mars, of Ajaccio thus perpetuating by this gesture of Peace, the Great and Beautiful Lesson of the Dead».
Types d'événement
Visite libre
Thème 2020
Patrimoine et éducation
Conditions de participation
Gratuit

About the location

La Borne Sacrée
37130 Cinq-Mars-la-Pile
  • Indre-et-Loire
  • Centre-Val de Loire
The Sacred Land Monument is the name given to a set of six monuments dedicated to the French and allied deaths of the First World War. They are due to the idea and work of the French sculptor Gaston Deblaize (? 1935), former hairy. Each of these blocks contains land from twelve different battlefields of the 14-18 war. These stations are located in France and the United States. The village of Cinq-Mars-la-Pile in Indre-et-Loire is in honour of the American general Robert H. Dunlap who fought in Argonne and Soissons. He died in 1931 while trying to save a woman caught in a landslide at Cinq-Mars-la-Pile. A small square in front of the monument of Meures is planted with wheat whose tradition was that it be harvested on the 1st Sunday of July of the following year and that the sheaves collected be deposited in front of the other five monuments of the Sacred Land. From now on, tradition will require that every year at harvest, the good wheat ripening at the bedside of the Borne de Meures be
Tags
Monument historique, Édifice commémoratif, Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO
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