The largest French military cemetery abroad is located in Sevastopol, Crimea.

Omissions

• No primary official source (French Ministry of Armed Forces, embassy/consulate, Souvenir Français national headquarters, or Russian/Ukrainian heritage registry) was retrieved that explicitly states the 'largest French military cemetery abroad' superlative; the ranking is supported only by secondary/historical sources describing the site's exceptional size.
• Reported numbers of French dead at the site differ substantially between sources (about 23,000 in Le Figaro vs. nearly 45,000 remains per a Souvenir Français local committee), so the exact magnitude is uncertain.
• The most detailed figures found date from 2020 and 2025, i.e. before the session date, and the site's condition/access has been affected by the Russian occupation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine; no post-2022 official French assessment of the cemetery was retrieved.
• The claim is a qualitative superlative ('largest abroad'), which no retrieved source states verbatim for Sevastopol; verification rests on the site's documented scale relative to other French military cemeteries outside France (e.g. Seddülbahir/Gallipoli, Bligny and Venafro in Italy).

Sources

• SecondaryLe Figaro — « À Sébastopol, l'hommage russe aux soldats de Napoléon III tombés en Crimée »« Quelque 23.000 soldats français y reposent, parmi les 90.000 qui sont morts de blessures, de faim ou de maladie sur les bords de la mer Noire. »
• SecondarySouvenir Français — comité d'Issy-les-Moulineaux, « Le cimetière militaire de Sébastopol, en Ukraine »« Le cimetière militaire français de Sébastopol comporte les restes de près de 45.000 soldats sur les 95.000 morts français de la guerre de Crimée »
• SecondaryGreatWar.co.uk — Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery 'Notre Dame de Lorette'Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery, also known as 'Notre Dame de Lorette', is the largest French military cemetery in the world.