July Column, Place de la Bastille
In 1830, the Revolution of the Three Glorious brought Louis-Philippe to power. To pay tribute to the victims and their struggle, he ordered the construction of a triumphal column surmounted by the Genius of Freedom. Two architects are working on this project: Alavoine and then Duc.
Built on the site of the bastille prison, the July column was inaugurated in 1840. During this ceremony, the Funeral and triumphal symphony Hector Berlioz, conductor of the orchestra, accompanied the arrival of the bodies of the revolutionaries in mortuary chariot, before their burial in the monument.
After the 1848 Revolution, the throne of Louis-Philippe was burned at the foot of the column and the remains of the rioters laid in the second vault of the monument. At the fall of Napoleon III in 1871, during the Commune, the monument barely escaped destruction.
Listed as a historical monument in 1995, she is the XIX witnesse history and architecture.
Website
column-of-july.fr
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Address
Place de la Bastille
75004 Paris
Resources online
A column for the Place de la Bastille
Place de la Bastille: a pivotal crossroads in Paris