 A separate monument features a tablet with the French inscription "Passant... va dire à la Belgique et à la France qu'ici 550 belges se sont sacrifiés pour la défense de la liberté et le salut du monde" ("Passer by... go say to Belgium and France that here 550 Belgians sacrificed themselves for the defense of freedom and the salvation of the world"), attributed to the French general Malleterre, based on the epitaph by Simonides for the Spartan dead at the Battle of Thermopylae.A number of other commemorative monuments were placed at the site, including the "flamme du souvenir", a figure of a man thrusting a torch from under the earth.Since 15 August 1914 the Fort de Loncin has been treated as a war grave and place of remembrance.