Located on the south side of the road.
Monument
Large stone monument with a staircase on each side and a vertical staircase in the middle. The monuments were paid for
via a French national subscription and inaugurated on 6 October 1937 in
presence of Albert Lebrun, President of the French Republic, and of General
Pershing. The monuments included two temporary
plaster statues, which were removed in 1941 due to their degradation. Work of
the architect Jacques Carlu, co-designer of the Palais de Chaillot in Paris,
the two monumental bases were both meant to support a bronze statue: the one of La Fayette, realized by the
America sculptor Barlett and presented to France by the children of the
American schools, and the one of Pershing, realized by the statue maker Joachim
Costa. Due to insufficient funds, the
two bronze statues were never placed on top of the monument as planned after
the inauguration. A second national
Committee was formed in 1951, but the monument was still not completed. It fell into disrepair, and was renovated in
2010-2011. The permanent statues were finally added in 2017.
General La Fayette
À l'instant que j'ai appris
que l'Amerique luttait
pour son indépendance
mon coeur s'est enrolé
La Fayette 1776
Richmond, James-River, Newport, Monmouth, Brandywine, Yorktown
