Croix de Montigny-le-Roi

Outside the church (on the approximate site of the Aurélie Picard square), there is a place called "le cimetière des cholériques" (the cholera cemetery), in memory of the terrible cholera epidemic that swept through Montigny in the summer of 1854. Curiously, however, the lower part of the village, where the church is located, was almost exclusively populated by farmers and lumberjacks at the time, and was entirely untouched by the plague. The large cross with its five steps on the hillside between the church and the town hall, in the absence of any inscription, could perhaps commemorate this event.