Mémorial de Sainte-Anne-d'Auray

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The memorial of the Great War of Sainte-Anne-d'Auray, built from 1922 to 1932 by the five dioceses of Brittany to preserve the memory of the "240,000 Breton victims of the First World War", is a 52-metre-high and 12-metre-diameter monument by architect René Ménard. Catholic capture of a monument that was intended to be a republican commemoration, he intended to gather the names of all the dead Bretons but only 8,000 were engraved on the wall in the shape of a horse-drawn iron that belted the monument, on marble plates that accompany a cross path.