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IMG_9082 Monument des Boers.jpg

Trente mille écoliers ont donné leurs sous pour permettre l’érection d’un monument à la mémoire des volontaires canadiens qui ont péri en Afrique du Sud au début du XXe siècle. On croit que la personne
qui a posé comme modèle est le fils du sculpteur; il portait le nom peu commun de Coeur de Lion MacCarthy.

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Thirty thousand schoolchildren donated pennies to pay for this monument to Canadian volunteers who died in South Africa in the early years of the 20th century. It is thought that the model for the work was the son of the sculptor, who had the unusual name of Coeur de Lion MacCarthy.


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