Pierre Philippe Marie Aristide Denfert-Rochereau,, was a French serviceman and politician. He achieved fame by successfully defending besieged Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War: this earned him t
Pierre Marie Philippe Aristide Denfert Rochereau
Statue of colonel Denfert-Rochereau in Belfort.
Lion of Belfort
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The Lion of Belfort, in Belfort, France, is an 1880 monumental sculpture by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty.
Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau
…serviceman and politician. He achieved fame by successfully defending besieged Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War: this earned him the sobriquet The Lion of Belfort (French: le lion de Belfort). Born in an upper-class, aristocratic Protestant family, he married a daughter of a leading Montbéliard family, Pauline…
The face of the red sandstone lion
People standing in front of the sculpture, showing its enormous size.
The Lion beneath the Belfort citadel.
The Lion of Belfort