Stroll through Strasbourg Kléberplatz

On 24 June 1840, the monument in the middle of the square was inaugurated by General Jean-Baptiste Kléber. Standing upright, he holds in his hand the letter in which British Admiral Keith had unsuccessfully asked him to surrender the French troops in 1800. Below the sculpture is the crypt where the coffin Kléber was buried in 1838, two years before the monument was consecrated.