Monument aux Girondins
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The Monument aux Girondins on Place des Quinconces in Bordeaux commemorates the Gironde MPs who fell victim to terror during the French Revolution .
It is a memorial column in the style of historicism , which is surrounded by richly decorated allegorical groups of figures. The memorial dates from the years 1894 to 1902. During the Second World War, the groups of figures cast in metal at the foot of the column were dismantled to be melted down. However, they reappeared after the end of the German occupation and have been part of the monument again since 1983. Since July 8, 2004 the Girondist monument has been registered as a Monument historique in the French list of monuments.
history
The architect Julien Guadet , great-nephew of Deputy Marguerite Élie Guadet , who was executed in 1794, suggested such a monument as early as 1868 . But the project was not implemented. It was not until 1881 that the council passed a resolution for a Girondist monument. A project that won a prize in 1888 was not realized either, but the one that won second prize. It was submitted under the motto Gloria victis (Glory to the Vanquished) and came from Achille Dumilâtre and the architect Deverin.
Since at the same time the project of a monumental fountain by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi failed for cost reasons - the Fontaine Bartholdi is now on the Place des Terreaux in Lyon - the aim was to combine the Girondist monument and the fountain. This combination was also implemented, but without the eight statues of delegates from Gironde: ( Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud , François Buzot , Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve , Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux , Élie Guadet, Armand Gensonné , Jean-Antoine Grangeneuve and Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède ).
The monument thus represents a peculiar combination of a monumental fountain (with allegorical depictions e.g. of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne ) with a 43 m high Victory Column dedicated to the politically inferior, at the top of which a bronze statue of freedom breaks its chains.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Délibération 20100568 du Conseil municipal du 25 October 2010.
- ^ Charles Vatel: Charlotte de Corday et les Girondins , Plon, Paris 1872, vol. 3, p. 786
Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ 43.4 " N , 0 ° 34 ′ 29.5" W.