Stèle du colonel de Marolles

The Fourth French Army, under General de Langle de Cary, continued its strategic withdrawal. His 11th corps reached Sedan on Monday, August 24, 1914. Joined by the enemy the next morning, he resisted until the 26th, and received the order to cross to the left bank, a little before noon, towards Wadelincourt and Noyers .
On the night of the 26th to the 27th, the Germans invested the Marfée plateau and captured Chaumont – Saint Quentin around 6 a.m. On the morning of August 27, the men of the 137th RI counterattacked with fixed bayonets, reached Noyers at 9 a.m. and pushed the invader back to the banks of the Meuse.
“I die happy, my soldiers are brave”, are the last words of their leader, Colonel de Marolles, mortally wounded.