Editing Cherbourg (section)

====Memorials====
[[File:Statue équestre de Napoléon.jpg|thumb|right|Statue of Napoleon]]

The {{Interlanguage link|Place Napoléon (Cherbourg-Octeville)|fr|3=Place Napoléon (Cherbourg-Octeville)|lt=Equestrian Statue of Napoleon I}} faces the basilica, on the ''Place Napoléon''. The work of [[Armand Le Véel]], it represents the Emperor contemplating the [[Cherbourg Harbour|harbour]] and the [[Cherbourg Naval Base|military port]]. On the base, reads an excerpt from the ''Memorial of Sainte-Hélène'', dated 15 July 1816: ''I had resolved to renew to Cherbourg the wonders of Egypt'', i.e. a pyramid with central fort and a new [[Lake Moeris]], for the outer harbour, dug into the rock. The statue, erected in 1858 on the occasion of the visit of [[Napoleon III]], recalls the importance of the Emperor in the expansion of Cherbourg. Around this emblematic monument of the city, registered in August 2006 and classified as an [[monument historique|historic monument]] on 31 January 2008, extends the ''Plage verte'', the old artificial beach until the postwar period, which runs along the marina.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ville-cherbourg.fr/fr/tourisme_decouverte/architecture_parc_et_jard/patrimoine_architectural/la_statue_napoleon_1er/default.asp |title=La Statue de Napopéon Ier|language=fr|trans-title=The Statue of Napopéon I|work=www.ville-cherbourg.fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231101357/http://www.ville-cherbourg.fr/fr/tourisme_decouverte/architecture_parc_et_jard/patrimoine_architectural/la_statue_napoleon_1er/default.asp|archive-date=31 December 2006}}</ref>

The monument of the [[Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry|Duke of Berry]], in the ''Place de la République'', commemorates the landing of the son of the future [[Charles X of France|Charles X]], back in France on the British frigate ''Eurotas'' on 13 April 1814, after the fall of the Empire. Completed in 1816, it consists of an obelisk of {{convert|25|ft|abbr=on}} in pink granite of Flamanville, surmounting a fountain of grey granite, where four bronze lions' heads spew water into a basin dug in the same block.<ref name="centreurbainancien" />

[[File:ArmandDeBricqueville.jpg|thumb|left|Bricqueville by David d’Angers.]]
The bust of {{Interlanguage link|Armand de Bricqueville|fr|3=Armand de Bricqueville|lt=Colonel Bricqueville}}, on the ''Quai de Caligny'', was inaugurated on 12 May 1850, in homage to the Colonel of the Imperial Dragons and Bonapartist deputy of Cherbourg who died in 1844. This {{convert|1.45|m|ft|abbr=on}} bust of Hermes<ref>"Bust whose shoulders, chest and back are cut by vertical planes. (Dict. Nineteenth and twentieth century.") {{cite web|url=http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/herm%C3%A8s|title=Définition du CNRTL}}</ref> is a bronze of [[David d'Angers]] on a {{convert|4|ft|abbr=on}} column of granite of the architect Lemelle, on which one can read the name of four battles where Bricqueville is illustrated: [[Battle of Wagram|Wagram]], [[Battle of Krasnoi|Krasnoi]], [[Siege of Antwerp (1814)|Antwerp]] and [[Battle of Rocquencourt|Versailles]]. Two bronze reliefs evoke the military (a sword) and parliamentary (a forum), were melted by the Germans in 1944. The monument has been listed as an [[Monument historique|historical monument]] since August 2006.<ref name=statuaire >{{cite book|title=La Statuaire monumentale|id=tourist brochure|publisher=Affaires culturelles de la ville Cherbourg-Octeville|year=2008}}</ref>

The statue of [[Jean-François Millet]], inaugurated in the {{Interlanguage link|Public garden of Cherbourg|fr|3=Jardin public de Cherbourg|lt=public garden}} on 22 September 1892, for the centenary of the [[French First Republic|First Republic]], honours the "painter of peasants", student at the Museum of Cherbourg. Funded by a subscription launched by the municipality in 1886 and taken over by Parisian circles, the realisation of the [[marble]] bust ({{convert|1.05|m|ft|abbr=on}} high) was entrusted to [[Henri Chapu]]; after his death, it was completed by his pupil [[Jean-Ernest Bouteiller]] who had assisted him in the allegorical group in bronze ({{convert|2.95|m|ft|abbr=on}} high) of a peasant woman with her daughter in arms and laying flowers of the fields on the bust, supported on a pedestal and granite rocks ({{convert|4.45|m|ft|abbr=on}} high, {{convert|2.55|m|ft|abbr=on}} wide, {{convert|2.6|m|ft|abbr=on}} of depth). The monument is inscribed since August 2006.<ref name=statuaire />

The monument to the dead of the [[French submarine Surcouf|''Surcouf'']], inaugurated at the end of the marina pier on 23 September 1951 by General de Gaulle, commemorates the memory of 130 sailors from the [[Free French Naval Forces]] submarine, built at Cherbourg and which sank on 18 February 1942 in the Pacific.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ville-cherbourg.fr/fr/tourisme_decouverte/architecture_parc_et_jard/patrimoine_architectural/le_monument_aux_morts_sur/default.asp|title=Le monument aux morts Surcouf|work=ville-cherbourg.fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111061116/http://www.ville-cherbourg.fr/fr/tourisme_decouverte/architecture_parc_et_jard/patrimoine_architectural/le_monument_aux_morts_sur/default.asp|archive-date=11 November 2007}}</ref>