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The design this bronze column is taken from the monumental model erected to the glory of Napoleon I'er in the Place Vendôme, Paris.
Napoleon envisaged the column would replace the statue of Louis XIV which was erected and pulled down on 12 August 1792. The column was to imitate the celebrated column of the Roman Emperor Trajan in Rome. The bronze for the Place Vendôme model came from 1250 cannons taken from the Russian and Austrian armies after the French victory at the battle of Austerlitz in 1803.
Napoleon envisaged the column would replace the statue of Louis XIV which was erected and pulled down on 12 August 1792. The column was to imitate the celebrated column of the Roman Emperor Trajan in Rome. The bronze for the Place Vendôme model came from 1250 cannons taken from the Russian and Austrian armies after the French victory at the battle of Austerlitz in 1803.