Photograph No. 8 - Battlefield Monument

This monument was erected by a French group/society on
August 20, 1903. It's a few yards away from where
Harold was slain. The inscription reads:

Diex Aie!
Dans le champ historique
de Senlac, ou tomba le brave Harold le
Saxon, 837 ans apres la bataille qui donna
a la Grande Bretagne la Loi Normande.
Le Souvenir Normand venu des bords
de la Seine a proclaime avec jioe la Paix
des Normandies Soeurs.
1066-1903
(3 names of president + vice president/founder etc.)
20 Aout, 1903.

Roughly translated into English, this reads as follows:

Into the historical field of Senlac
where fell the brave Harold the
Saxon, 837 years after the battle
which gave gave Norman Law to Great Britain.
The Norman Memory come from the edges
of the Seine has proclaime with joy the Peace
of Normandies Sisters.

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