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Individual burial for combatants and military cemeteries, conceived in 1915 but set up after 1918, appeared in France during the Great War. Established by the secular state, national necropolises glorify each man “Death for France” not only as a military entity that sacrificed himself for the homeland, but also as a singular individual and citizen, rooted in a family unit and defined by social status and religious beliefs. Through a hundred burial sites in Alsace and Lorraine, findings can be made about the place that religion occupies there, such as their spatial organization, the presence or not of certain elevations, the choice, distribution and attribution of emblems. Was their appearance influenced by the evolution of funeral practices during the conflict, but also by the history of Alsace and Lorraine and the non-application, before 1920, of French laws in the three departments annexed to Germany from 1871 to 1918 ?