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The monument to the dead of Champagne-sur-Loue comes from the tribute paid to Léon Mesny de Boisseaux, a young franc-tireur du Jura killed in 1870 during the Franco-German war. His family had this monument erected on his native property, marking his memory with a pyramidal structure in rocks, symbolizing fighting and mourning. pictorial works, such as Louis Hippolyte Mouchot's paintings, completed this tribute, while a statue and a stele were installed in Dole and Nuits-Saint-Georges.

After World War I, the family offered the monument to the commune, where the names of the four inhabitants died between 1914 and 1918. Transferred to its current location, it became the monument to the village's official dead, also commemorating the victims of 1939-1945. Its architecture, evoking a stylized rock cluster, incorporates military and funeral symbols. Ranked a historic monument in April 2024, it is part of a set of 26 franc-comtois monuments protected in the same year by the DRAC.

The monument is distinguished by its dual heritage: family memorial became a place of collective remembrance. Its recent inscription underscores its heritage value, both artistic and historical, linked to the conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, located on departmental 274, it remains communal property and accessible to the public, testifying to the local commitment to preserve the memory of the Jurassian soldiers.

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