Monument Details

American Friends of France - Battle of the Marne

Details:

In a fenced off, grassy, memorial park next to the traffic circle. Monument

A 71 foot tall statue called "Hopeless Victory", the largest freestanding statue in France. Dedicated in 1932 by the French President Albert Lebrun with the American ambassador Walter Evans Edge, it marks the limit of advance of the German Army in Sept 1914 and commemorates the Battle of the Marne in Meaux. Architect Thomas Hastings, sculptor Frederick MacMonnies, builder Edmond Quattrochi, paid for by the American Friends of France.

Monument Text:

Here speak again the silent voices of heroic sons of France who dared all and gave all in the day of deadly peril turned back the flood of imminent disaster and thrilled the world by their supreme devotion

Erected in 1932

By American Friends of France in Memory of the

Battle of the Marne in September 1914

Commemorates:

Wars:

WWI

Battles:

1st Marne

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