#Monument to "La Volontaires Americains Morts pour La France" Dedicated on July 4 1923 by the President of the French Council of State, Raymond Poincaré dedicated to the Americans who had volunteered to fight in World War I in the service of France. The monument had been financed through a public subscription. #French #sculptor Jean #Boucher used a photograph of the soldier and poet, #AlanSeeger, as his inspiration, and #Seeger's name can be found, among those of twenty-three others who had fallen in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, on the back of the plinth. Also, on either side of the base of the statue, are two excerpts from Seeger's Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France, a poem written shortly before his death on 4 July 1916. Seeger intended that his words should be read in Paris on 30 May of that year, at an observance of the #American holiday, Decoration Day (today known as #MemorialDay). (at Place des États-Unis)
