Menhir de la Tonnelle

The menhir de la Tonnelle stands in the cemetery of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie , near Les Sables-d'Olonne in the Vendée department in France .

The approximately 2.8 m high, 1.1 m wide and 0.4 m thick menhir was moved from its original location in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez to be used as a stele at the grave of the local historian Marcel Baudouin (1860–1941) to serve. Baudouin was the co-founder, treasurer and secretary general of the Société préhistorique française (French Prehistoric Society) from 1906 to 1919 . In 1904 he founded the magazine L'Homme préhistorique with Arthur Chervin (1850–1921), Georges Courty (1875–1953) and Adrien de Mortillet (1853–1931) .

literature

Marcel Baudouin: Le Menhir de La Tonnelle (Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, Vendée), Monument classé, a été détruit à la suite d'une Action humaine. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France 1915, Vol. 12 No 3, pp. 167-180

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Menhir de la Tonnelle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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46.698989 -1.938451Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 56.4 " N , 1 ° 56 ′ 18.4" W.