A modest seigneury dating back to the XNUMXth century, La Moncelle changed hands several times before entering the Principality of Sedan and becoming one of the country houses of the La Marck and La Tour d'Auvergne families in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries.
At the end of the 1th century, the Montagnacs were the last lords with the right to high justice. The Franco-German wars did not spare La Moncelle, which suffered particularly from the fighting in the Givonne valley on September 1870, XNUMX.
The heroic resistance of the French forces that day between La Ramorie and Montvillers, against the Saxons and the Bavarians who overwhelmed them was very deadly and for several days after the capitulation hundreds of bodies were gathered either in the improvised mass graves or in the municipal cemeteries. The monument of French Remembrance which is located here in the heart of the cemetery was erected in memory of approximately 300 brave men who died for France on September 1, 1870.
Seeing just next to this monument the graves of two Saxon officers, one begins to hope that the reconciliation between yesterday's enemies in Europe will be an example for the whole world.
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