La Défense de Paris
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La Défense de Paris is a bronze statue by French sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias. It commemorates the French dead from the Siege of Paris in 1870–71, during the Franco-Prussian War. The sculpture group
La Défense de Paris in 2017
Auguste Rodin's rejected proposal for La Défense, known as L'Appel aux armes ("The Call to Arms")
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Statue of Napoleon [fr] by Charles Émile Seurre, with the plinth reused by Barrias
Monument de la défense de Saint-Quentin
Siege of Paris (1870–1871)
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The Siege of Paris took place from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871 and ended in the capture of the city by forces of the various states of the North German Confederation, led by the Kingdom of Pr
La Défense de Paris
…La Défense de Paris is a bronze statue by French sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias. It commemorates the French dead from the Siege of Paris in 1870–71, during the Franco-Prussian War. The sculpture group was unveiled to the west of Paris on 12 October 1883, erected on an existing plinth…
Saint-Cloud after French and German bombardment during the Battle of Châtillon
A company of the French National Guards
"The War: Defence of Paris – Students Going to Man the Fortifications". From the Illustrated London News of 1 October 1870; perhaps one of the more iconic scenes from the Franco-Prussian War.
Commemorative medal Siege of Paris by Jules-Clément Chaplin. Showing on the obverse the armed city goddess Lutetia standing in front of a cannon