 Funded by a subscription launched by the municipality in 1886 and taken over by Parisian circles, the realisation of the marble bust ( high) was entrusted to Henri Chapu; after his death, it was completed by his pupil Jean-Ernest Bouteiller who had assisted him in the allegorical group in bronze ( high) of a peasant woman with her daughter in arms and laying flowers of the fields on the bust, supported on a pedestal and granite rocks ( high, wide, of depth).The monument is inscribed since August 2006.The monument to the dead of the "Surcouf", inaugurated at the end of the marina pier on 23 September 1951 by General de Gaulle, commemorates the memory of 130 sailors from the Free French Naval Forces submarine, built at Cherbourg and which sank on 18 February 1942 in the Pacific.