Among the many monuments already set up on the battlefields of France, or which are to be set up in the future, there is nothing that will excite more general approval than the proposed memoria} to French and Allied nurses who gave their lives during the war. Mme. Juliette Adam, who has taken the lead in the movement. has sent out an appeal in which she "our says: Monuments to brothers are scattered over the world. We propose to erect. a single monument, at martyred Rheims, to the devoted women who muraed our fighting men to the A. site at Rheims_has been given, and about half of the estimated outlay of Frs. 180,000 is already subscribed. One of the most eminent French sculptors, M. Denys Puech, is making the design, which, it is to-be hoped, will be of simple and dignified character. M. Puech will have a better chance, at any rate, than most designers of war memorials, as he will not he expected to transform rifles and canon and other engines destruction into objects of art.
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