Monument de Bathelémont à la mémoire des trois premiers soldats américains morts en France, 1918

Bathelémont, France

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Standing in Bathelémont, France, this Art Nouveau war memorial designed by Louis Majorelle commemorates the three first American soldiers to die in France during World War I. Erected in 1918, the monument employs Euville stone and represents both a tribute to the fallen and a cautionary statement about the costs of war. Majorelle's design brings the flowing, organic aesthetic of Art Nouveau to bear on a solemn subject, marking an early moment in the vast memorial landscape that would emerge across France in the wake of the Great War.