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Photographer: Michael Manning
Taken: June 23, 2015
Caption: Battle of the Marne American Monument
Additional Description: The sculptor depicted the tragedy of 1914 in the form reminiscent of the purest creations of Antiquity. France, the central personage, resembles at once a Spartan mother, ready to sacrifice her sons for the good of the nation, and, simultaneously, grief-stricken and overwhelmed, struggling to rise, heroically, her heart bleeding. Her face is a long cry of anguish, a heart-rending appeal, launched above the panic of arms, the cry of alarm of a nation which must gather all its strength. That is why the monument has been referred to as “Tearful Liberty”. - Tourisme Pays de Meaux
Submitted: July 22, 2015, by Michael Manning of Woodlawn, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p317163
File Size: 1.845 Megabytes

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