Description
This so-called "modern" menhir was erected in 1840 as a tribute to the more than 600 men who perished when the vessel "Les Droits de l'Homme" sank on the night of 13-14 January 1797 after a fierce battle with two English ships, and ran aground on the beach at Canté. Returning to the site more than forty years later, Major Pipon, then a prisoner on the ship and one of the survivors of the shipwreck, had the menhir engraved as a tribute to those who lost their lives.
