In a fenced off, grassy, memorial park next to the traffic circle. Monument A 71 foot tall statue called "Hopeless Victory", the largest freestanding statue in France. Dedicated in 1932 by the French President Albert Lebrun with the American ambassador Walter Evans Edge, it marks the limit of advance of the German Army in Sept 1914 and commemorates the Battle of the Marne in Meaux. Architect Thomas Hastings, sculptor Frederick MacMonnies, builder Edmond Quattrochi, paid for by the American Friends of France.

Here speak again the silent voices of heroic sons of France who dared all and gave all in the day of deadly peril turned back the flood of imminent disaster and thrilled the world by their supreme devotion