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The monument to the children of the district dead for the homeland in 1870 is a memorial building located in Neufchâteau, in the Vosges (Great East region). He paid tribute to the soldiers of the district who had fallen during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. This monument, characteristic of the funerary art of the 4th quarter of the 19th century, is distinguished by its pedestal in granite of the Vosges and its female statue in bronze, symbolizing mourning or victory.

The project was initiated by the 437th section of veterans and led by Jean Boverie, while municipal architect Jacquemart designed the pedestal. The bronze statue, the work of sculptor Eugene-Jean Boverie, was melted by the Capitain and Salin establishments in Vecqueville. Inaugurated on 7 October 1900, the monument was inscribed in historical monuments by order of 19 January 2000, thus recognizing its heritage and memorial value.

This monument is part of a post-conflict context in which the French communes erected tributes to local soldiers, often funded by veterans' associations. In Neufchâteau, as elsewhere in the Great East marked by the Franco-German wars, these works were used to perpetuate collective memory and display symbolic resistance, while integrating regional artistic elements, such as the use of Vosgian granite.

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