National Necropolis
from grandchamp to baslieux

OT Longuyonnais

The Baslieux necropolis (Meurthe-et-Moselle) is an ossuary monument erected on a vault built on August 26, 1920, on the site of a collective grave of French soldiers buried by the German army. It was inaugurated on September 27, 1922. This monument is a tomb whose cross contains the remains of two hundred and fifty heroes. The following epitaph can be read there: "On this plain, on August 22, 1914, 800 Frenchmen fell for their Fatherland."