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Maroon Memorial, Sainte-Anne The memorial features the wall of a mill, a symbol of the oppressive plantation system, from which emerges a Marron with his leg and ears cut off as a sign of attempted resistance and escape, and on which several symbols of slavery and marronnage are displayed: chains referring to deprivation of freedom; two Chaltounés, torches, used for nocturnal travel; a lambi conch shell, which enabled communication with other slaves; a Ka, drum, which accompanied slaves in their songs and enabled them to perpetuate African music and was a decisive means of communication.
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Monument to Surcouf Standing in privateer costume, sword in left hand, Surcouf points to the horizon with his right hand. -
Monument to Victor Schœlcher, Cayenne The monument depicts Victor Schœlcher raising his right arm to the sky, “showing, on the horizon, incipient liberty” (inauguration speech by the Governor of French Guiana) and wrapping his left arm, in a paternalistic gesture, around the shoulders of a young black man dressed in a loincloth, wearing broken chains on his feet. With his hand over his heart, the young man looks gratefully at Schœlcher. -
Monument to Doctor Hamy The monument in honor of Doctor Hamy consists of a pedestal on which a bronze bust of Ernest Hamy is mounted, and in front of which an allegorical female figure in a long, full dress, holding a skull in her left hand and a measuring instrument in her right. Stylized ethnographic types are engraved on three sides of the pedestal: a Breton woman on the right, a North American First Nations man and an Asian man at the back, and a South American man on the left. -
Monument to Marshal Bugeaud, Périgueux The monument depicts Marshal Bugeaud standing bareheaded in military garb, his right hand resting on his heart and his left hand holding a sabre. Behind him, at his feet, is a trophy made up of flags representing the territories over which he established French rule in Algeria. -
Monument to général Faidherbe, Lille The monument features an equestrian statue of General Faidherbe in parade dress, holding a sabre in his hand. At his feet, an allegory of the city of Lille, a woman wearing crown, cuirass and long coat, looks at him with admiration and indicates with her left hand to an allegory of History the hero's exploits to be recorded in a book placed on her lap. At the back of the monument, a second female allegory, representing the cities of the North, hands Faidherbe a laurel wreath. On the sides of the pedestal, two bas-reliefs depict the Battle of Pont-Noyelles (December 24, 1870) on the right, and the Battle of Bapaume (January 3, 1871) on the left.