Forty-four metres high and cast from the bronze of guns captured at Austerlitz, the column of the Grande Armée was inaugurated on Saint Napoleon's day. A spiral of bas-reliefs recounts the campaign of 1805; a statue of the Emperor as Caesar crowns it. Pulled down in 1814, restored, then toppled by the Commune in 1871, it would be raised yet again.
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Battles Austerlitz
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