There are tables and chairs for relaxing, as well as information boards about the history of the town and the statue. The statue was erected in 1887 in memory of Eudes de Châtillon who became Pope Urban II in 1088.
This village of about 700 inhabitants has the particularity of having in its city center at the top of the old Castrum (or feudal mound) a gigantic statue of Urban …
The monument is dedicated to the two battles of the Marne. The site was chosen by Marshal Foch. The ossuary contains the bones of 1,500 unknown soldiers.
More than 2,500 soldiers who fell during the spring offensive of 1918 are buried here. Originally they were distributed to various cemeteries in the surrounding communities, but by 1933 they were reburied in this central cemetery.