Obelisk

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This 19th-century obelisk was fashioned from dark volcanic stone from Volvic and festooned with carvings. The monument was raised in honour of Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, a local general highly esteemed by Napoleon Bonaparte, who died in the Battle of Marengo.

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