Cimetière Saint-Charles

Along the central aisle of the first square on the left, six rows before the bottom of the square, stands the tomb of Louis Busson, director of the Sedan gasworks, shot by the Germans on 13 July 1916 for spying. The Kommandantur had the cemetery closed for several days after his burial to prevent the Sedanese from coming to gather en masse at his grave. The Saint-Charles cemetery also has a large military square from the Great War where 1489 bodies lie: French soldiers and civilian victims "Dead for France", Belgian civilian victims "Dead for the Fatherland", British soldiers as well as Russian and Romanian soldiers who died in captivity. In order to bury them, the German army had already had to extend the Saint-Charles cemetery to the rear when there was not enough space, but the military square as we see it today was built by France after the conflict. The German monument reminds us that soldiers of the other side were buried in the same communal cemetery. Because of the different nationalities present, it is a place of shared memory. Above the military square, on the left, are several rows of graves of soldiers who died for France, erected by their families. The Saint-Charles cemetery also includes, here and there, other graves of soldiers who died for France, graves of civilian victims, veterans, and witnesses of the Great War. In the Jewish Square below the main cemetery, there is a monument to the victims of the Second World War.

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