Shortly after, the French crossed the Prussian border. Among other villages, they reached Kad?ub Turawski and billeted their soldiers there for some time. They sent the wounded and the sick to the small hospital located near today’s church. The dead were buried in the cemetery in the area of what are today the G?ówna and Stara streets. In 1815, three years after the tragic retreat of the Great Army from Moscow, the inhabitants of Kad?ub Turawski erected a chapel in the French cemetery. It was to serve as a reminder of the days when the military genius and great ambitions were stopped dead in the freezing wilderness of Russia. Since 1740 the region of Silesia was under Prussian control. In 1806 Napoleon swooped on Prussia like a predator. The French defeated the Prussian army in two battles taking place on the same day, October 14 – one at Jena, the other at Auerstädt. These two battles doomed Prussia. Napoleonic troops entered all Prussian towns including Opole. They also marched through Kad?ub Turawski where they set up a military hospital for the wounded near a church. The inhabitants of Kad?ub were very unhappy about the presence of wounded soldiers, because it was required that each day a different family supply them with food and cook their meals. It seems the French doctor was not too much of an expert as a dozen or so of his patients died on him. The dead were buried in the new cemetery located at the fork of the G?ówna and Stara streets of today. Around 1815 the inhabitants erected a classical chapel. A figure of Our Lady was put inside together with painting depicting the Holy Family, Virgin Mary and St. Anthony. In the upper part of the chapel, there is a figure of John of Nepomuk to protect the village against floods. For hundreds of years the cemetery was surrounded by limes. Unfortunately they have been felled. In the times when people used carriages to travel, wells were built at crossroads. Such a pumping well was located on the fringe of the French military cemetery. The well is unfortunately gone today as are the graves. In 1956 one of the trees damaged the upper part of the chapel. Józef Koc and Leon Zydla repaired the damage without approval from the authorities and decreased the height of the chapel by doing so. Last year the inhabitants of Kad?ub were persuaded by the head of the village to change the chapel’s front. Thus, it obtained its new, neat look.