Colonne Vendôme
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January 18
It is called (originally and scientifically) "The Column of Victories of the Great Army." It was erected in 1010 by Napoleon the First of the 1,200 captured Russian and Austrian cannons (according to the number of guns, they lie) in honor of the victory in the 1905 campaign. But now it is no longer the original column, since in 1891, during the Paris Commune, the column with the statue of Napoleon was toppled and destroyed by the efforts of the commissioner and the famous lapidary artist Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet. After the Paris Commune was suppressed, the column was restored in 1873.. By the way, Courbet was sentenced to reimburse the cost of the column, as a result of which he went bankrupt and emigrated.. He did not give the money in principle, since he died in 1877.
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August 29, 2024
Well, not really, come to Volgograd and you will see the full power of the great motherland
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July 5, 2020
One of the main squares of Paris. The column itself was melted down from the cannons of the defeated opponents - see on the Internet who they were. But if we abstract, there are many interesting buildings and other things here. worthy of attention. By the way, the Ritz hotel, from which Princess Diana left on her last journey, is located right here...
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January 26, 2020
The Vendome Column (French: la colonne Vendôme) is the Parisian "column of Victories" (former name) The Grand Army on the Place Vendome in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, erected by decree of Napoleon I on January 1, 1806, in memory of the victories he won in the campaign of 1805. It was built from August 25, 1806 to August 15, 1810.
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