War Memorials
By the end of the 1914-1918 war, the town plans to build a monument in honor of the dead Bessans for France, and contacts with the famous sculptor Jean Antoine Injalbert. Several of the letters, dating from 1921, we learn that he has made two sketches for Bessan but it lacks the time to start the work. Beginning 1923, to begin the monument Béziers, he thinks he can lead the two front yards. But, tired of waiting, the city turns to Auguste Azéma which, in 1922, is responsible for the erection of a shrine to the dead for the homeland, or war memorials in the cemetery. This building will be completed in 1924. The following year, it will be Augustus Azéma asked to build a memorial to children Bessan died for France, or the Victory Monument, to be completed in 1926. On these two works are engraved the names of Bessans died for France in 1914-1918, that of Victory will be added those of other wars: 1939-1945, Indochina war, war in Algeria.
Famous quotes containing the words war and/or memorials:
“Those who dare to interpret God’s will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)
“Let these memorials of built stone music’s
enduring instrument, of many centuries of
patient cultivation of the earth, of English
verse ...”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)