On a cold and windswept field outside the Belgian village of Waterloo, an iron fence encloses one of the most poignant monuments ever raised on a battlefield — the French Memorial known as "The Eagle Wounded to Death," inaugurated on 28 June 1904 near La Haie Sainte, the farmhouse that saw some of the fiercest fighting of Napoleon's last battle. The bronze relief by the sculptor Gérome depicts a wounded imperial eagle, symbol of Napoleonic France, collapsing in its death throes — a meditation on the catastrophe of 18 June 1815 where the Imperial Guard made its final stand. The card's caption, printed in English directly on the image, quotes the famous words attributed to General Cambronne: "The Guard dies, but never surrenders." Published by E. Desaix of Brussels just months after the memorial's inauguration, this is an early photographic postcard from the "La Belgique Historique" series (logo embossed lower left), capturing the monument while the surrounding earth was still raw and the young trees barely planted — a document of a monument in its first year of existence. The undivided back has no stamp affixed and was never posted, suggesting it may have been kept as a souvenir by a battlefield visitor of 1904–1906.