Montgobert

Montgobert is a common French, located in the department of the Aisne and the area Picardy.

Geography

In the forest of Longpont, on the commune of Montgobert, is established the mausoleum built after the First World War under which is buried the captain Joost van Vollenhoven. French naturalized Dutchman, Van Vollenhoven was general governor of the French Indo-China when the First World War burst. He joined the face into 1915 at the sides of the Africans of the colonies which France mobilized to drive back the German troops, in the Régiment of Colonial Infantry of Morocco (RICM). Named governor general of the French Western Africa, he resigns to reconsider the face, always with the RICM. He is mortally wounded on June 20th, 1918 whereas he is with the head of his company on the commune of Parcy-and-Tigny. Brought back to the back, he dies in Montgobert. On the Mausoleum the quotation is reproduced in the order of the RICM and its own quotation with the order of the regiment. The RICM (Regiment of infantry and tanks of navy) is based today with Poitiers.

the castle of Montgobert, built at the end of the 18th century, belonged to Pauline Bonaparte, sister of the emperor and wife of the general Leclerc. It belongs nowadays to the Duc of Albufera and shelters a museum of wood and tool. The park of the castle was drawn at the beginning of the 19th century and taken again by Achille Duchêne.

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