I have a photo taken in France is a memorial with 3 servicemen on the top, the inscription reads
A la memoire
Des Soldats et Marias
morts pour la patrie
souvenir francais
1904
in the background there is a building, maybe a church with 2 domes and a tower where a clock should be.
Can anyone please tell me where the memorial is and what does it commerorate
Many thanks
2007-09-05 07:52:26 · 7 answers · asked by spiritania 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I know now that this monument is in normandy somewhere but still dont know what it commemorates as the date is def 1904. Does anyone know WHERE in Normandy please and any other info please
thanks
2007-09-06 03:58:34 · update #1
sorry the inscription does say
soldats et marins thanks
2007-09-06 05:23:05 · update #2
I googled a website in French based on what you said, and then I translated the text. From what I could tell, I thought your picture was of a World War I memorial. 1904 is too early however, so it must be to commemorate soldiers from another war or soldiers who died for their county in general.
Your text seems to roughly translate into something like "With the memory Of the Soldiers and Married dead for the fatherland memory French 1904"
I also found reference to some monuments with similar text, however not the same one you mentioned. Here is one of them:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://perso.orange.fr/memoiresdepierre/alphabetnew/a/audincthun.JPG&imgrefurl=http://perso.orange.fr/memoiresdepierre/alphabetnew/a/audincthun.html&h=399&w=429&sz=71&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=aSalFstoLK4q9M:&tbnh=117&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522morts%2Bpour%2Bla%2Bpatrie%2522%26svnum%3D100%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG
2007-09-05 07:58:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it commemorates the soldiers who fought for their country. How ever i cant find any sort of info revealing a war in france during that time, All i found were political problems, diplomatic problems and the Lumiere brothers make the 1st color pictures...
2007-09-05 08:07:56 · answer #2 · answered by caroline d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every town and village in France has a memorial like this
2007-09-05 18:15:33 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No idea i'm afraid - if no-one gets back to you, try the imperial war museum, they are amazing when it comes to stuff like that. If they can't answer your question, they'll put you in touch with someone who can! Best of luck.
2007-09-05 12:14:26 · answer #4 · answered by Jim C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be noted that the Franco-Prussian war took place not long before this monument was raised. Hope this helps.
2007-09-05 08:48:02 · answer #5 · answered by Telemachus R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
could it be 'soldats et marins'?
They were fighting in the Magreb round about that time, I think.
2007-09-05 10:57:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-05 07:58:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋