In front of the museum between the flagpoles.

Black granite inscribed upright memorial.

The memorial remembers the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Hospital that was located in Beaune, France during World War 1 as well and the AEF University that was located here and offered classes to thousands of US Soldiers during the war. This effort developed by the YMCA and the US Army was the creation of the American Expeditionary Forces own university at Beaune, on the site of a former Red Cross hospital twenty miles south of Dijon,* and of 1,000 army post schools scattered across France and the occupied portions of Germany. The program provided a wide range of courses, 200 in all, including a full high school program, a agricultural college, a fine arts school with departments in interior design, painting, sculpture and city planning, a medical school, and classes to prepare a few soldiers for admission to West Point. (It also had a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.)

The museum behind the memorial, LHistorial de Beaune,  presents the story of the hospital and University in great detail. 

Source: https://www.historyinthemargins.com/

The inscrition on the mounment is in Franch and reads:

HISTORIAL de la MEMOIRE et de l'AMITIE FRANCO AMERICAINE
ICI
LORS DE LA PREMIERE GUERRE MONDIALE
L'ARMEE AMERICAINE A CONSTRUIT
UN HOPITAL DE CAMPAGNE (FIELD HOSPITAL) DE 20 000 LITS SUR 60 HECTARES POUR LES
BLESSES RAMENES DU FRONT.
LE CAMP AMERICAIN ACCUEILLIT EN 1919 UNE UNIVERSITE
(AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES UNIVERSITY) QUI RASSEMBLA PLUS DE 6 000 ETUDIANTS
MILITAIRES ET LEURS PROFESSEURS.

BEAUNE le 11 JUIN 2015

Transaltion:

HISTORY OF FRENCH-AMERICAN MEMORY AND FRIENDSHIP
HERE
During the First World War, the American army built a 20,000-bed field hospital on 60 hectares for the wounded brought back from the front.
In 1919, the American camp became home to the American Expeditionary Forces University, which brought together more than 6,000 military students and their professors.

BEAUNE, June 11, 2015