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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