Place d'Alsace Lorraine

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The war of 1870 between France and Prussia was the trigger that upset the balance of the world in 75 years.
In August 1870, an army hastily formed in Châlons (in Champagne) took to the Ardennes to prevent the advance of the enemy troops. After a month and a half, the defeated Napoleon III declared himself a prisoner of the subprefecture of Sedan before signing the Capitulation at Donchery. This was called the Sedan debacle.

In 1875, the Bourbon bastion was removed, allowing the construction of the new center of the city, the Place Alsace-Lorraine. In the center of the square is the monument to the dead of 1870, the work of the Ardennes sculptor Aristide Croisy.

Willem Vandenameele

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