Military monument at Robermont

The cemetery of Robermont (French: Cimetière de Robermont) is a cemetery in the Belgian city of Liège. The cemetery covers 44 hectares and is the main cemetery of the city. It is located east of the city center, in the borough of Bressoux.
The cemetery is sometimes called the Liège Père Lachaise: the protected oldest part is not only a cemetery, but also a beautiful park. An artistically good funerary monument is that of Francoise Léopoldine Lanhay, who died in or around 1864. Sculptor Jean-Joseph Halleux shows her lying on her death bed; To protect the marble against the weather, the monument is surrounded by a glass house. The funerary monument by the Liège sculptor Leonildo Giannoni (1880-1951) is special and artistically striking. A statue of his wife Hubertine Chapelier, made by himself, has been placed on his grave. This female nude depicts despair, without the modesty that comes from mourning or angelicness.

Sixteen Walloon sites appear on the list of 139 funeral and memorial sites of the First World War that Wallonia, Flanders and France have just registered as candidates for the UNESCO World Heritage List.

These sites include the Military Squares of Robermont (Liège) alongside the military cemeteries of the Commonwealth of the entity of Commines-Warneton, the German military cemetery and the Commonwealth of Saint-Symphorien (Mons), the French military cemetery of Fosses-la-Ville, the Enclosure of the executed in Tamines (Sambreville), the French and Franco-German military cemeteries of Tintigny,

Alongside the 16 Walloon sites, 27 others are located in Flanders and 96 in France. They are spread over what was designated, during the 14-18 war, as the “Western Front zone”, between the North Sea and the Franco-Swiss border.

One of the peculiarities of these sites is that they bear witness to the appearance of a new “cult” of dead soldiers, where everyone now has a place where their name is inscribed and where it is possible to pay homage to them. . “The First World War is the moment when all the belligerents create military cemeteries where all, allies or enemies of yesterday, are present and are recognized in their individuality and their suffering”, note the services of Mr. Prévot, Minister Walloon Heritage.