Monument "Les fantômes" de Paul Landowski

To commemorate the counter-offensive that led the Allies to victory in 1918, the French government commissioned Paul Landowski, the Polish-born French sculptor (1875-1961), to build an extraordinary monument on the very spot where the fate of the Second Battle of the Marne was decided.
One might have expected a work glorifying the actions of the Allied armies, but this was not the case.
Strongly influenced by the pacifism of the 1930s, Landowski depicts "ghosts": seven dead soldiers, with blank stares, dressed in the various uniforms of the French army corps.
In their midst appears the naked figure of a martyred hero, a reminder of the suffering of men thrown into war.

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