Dunkirk · cultural
Monument à la mémoire des Fusiliers marins
- Architect
- Jean-Marie Morel, Félix Alexandre Desruelles (sculptor)
- Date
- 1929
- Type
- cultural
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Dunkirk
- Status
- inventoried
- Address
- Quai Michel-Florent-Vanlangren, 59140 Dunkerque
Erected at the initiative of the association of former Fusiliers marins through a national subscription, this monument was inaugurated on 11 November 1929. The city architect Jean-Marie Morel designed its symmetrical composition in pink sandstone, on either side of a column bearing a statue of Joan of Arc; the sculptor Félix Desruelles produced the bas-reliefs, a frieze inspired by the Parthenon treated in an Art Deco version. The monument as a whole has been a registered historic monument (inscrit MH) since 2019; it is not listed (classé).
Translated from the French original.