Monument des Marie-Louise et aux Bleuets de la Ferme d’Hurtebise

Erected in 1927 “à la vaillance de la jeunesse française”, the monument evokes the memory of the young recruits of 1814 who bore the name of the Empress (Marie-Louise) by associating it with that of the Bleuets of the Great War, young soldiers of class 17. The bronze group, sculpted by Maxime Real del Sarte, depicts a soldier of the Imperial Guard wearing a shako, and a poilu from 1914-1918, both holding a laurel wreath as a symbol of glory, commemorating both Napoleon’s battle on the Craonne plateau in March 1814 and the fighting of the Great War, one hundred years later, on the same spot…