Vercingétorix monument
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The Vercingetorix Monument (1865)
[1] is a statuary monument dedicated to a Gaul chieftan defeated by Julius Ceasar in the Gallic Wars.
The monument was commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III from the sculptor Aimé Millet and installed in 1865 on Mont Auxois, near Alise-Sainte-Reine (Alise-Ste-Reine) in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France. The site was the supposed site of Alesia. Napoleon III erected a seven-meter-tall statue to commemorate Vercingétorix as a symbol of Gallic nationalism. The architect for the memorial was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.[2] The base, has an nationalistic inscription installed by Viollet-le-Duc, in translates in to French the words of Julius Caesar:
- La Gaule unie
- Formant une seule nation
- Animée d'un même esprit,
- Peut défier l'Univers.
- Gaul united,
- Forming a single nation
- Animated by a common spirit,
- Can defy the Universe.
References
- ↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA21000061 Vercingétorix Monument (French)
- ↑ Statue of Vercingetorix, Art and Architecture, 2006
