SITE DU MORT-HOMME

The German offensive to capture Verdun was launched in February 1916. At the beginning of March, fighting takes place on the hills of Mort-Homme. The French put up heroic resistance under a deluge of fire. 10,000 Poilus died in this sector.

Monument of the Dead Man, by the sculptor Jacques Froment-Meurice.
Standing free from his shroud, the skeleton of the soldier utters his cry of victory. On one arm he carries a flag, symbol of the nation for which he sacrificed himself, and on the other arm he holds the torch of victory. On the base of the monument, the formula "They did not pass" recalls the sacrifice of the French fighters for the possession and conservation of this observatory hill on the left bank of the Meuse.

The village Cumières, declared "dead village for France", becomes in 1922 Cumières le Mort-Homme. In memory of the village, the Saint-Rémi chapel is built with the stones of the old church in the middle of an enclosure preceded by a monument to remind that here, there was a peaceful village.

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