The July Column - Paris, France
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The July Column is a monument to the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille, to commemorate the Trois Glorieuses, the "three glorious", days in July 1830 that saw the fall of Charles X.
Waymark Code: WMEY25
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 07/20/2012
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The July Column is composed of twenty-one cast bronze drums, weighing over 163,000 pounds , containing an interior spiral staircase, and rests on a base of white marble ornamented with bronze bas-reliefs. The column is engraved in gold with the names of Parisians who died during the revolution. Over the Corinthian capital is a gallery 16 feet (wide, surmounted with a gilded globe, on which stands a colossal gilded figure, Auguste Dumont's Génie de la Liberté (the "Spirit of Freedom"). The monument, in an elaboration of a Corinthian column, was designed by the architect Jean-Antoine Alavoine, following a commission from Louis-Philippe: the Place de la Bastille was officially selected as the site, 9 March 1831, and the Citizen-King placed a first stone on 28 July 1831, the anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. The column was constructed by Alavoine's partner in the project, Joseph-Louis Duc. It was inaugurated 28 July 1840.
Documentation (website): [Web Link]
Type of Column: Corinthian
Location: traffic circle
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