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visible in our drawing represent on the right the departure of the army in 
1792: the Angel of Glory summons the people; on the left is the triumph of 
Napoleon in 1810, by Cortot : Napoleon protected by the Angel of Glory is 
crowned by Victory. Upon the opposite side is the defence of the French 
people in 1814 and the Peace of 1815. In the upper part the figures appear 
in modern costume, and here are the Battle of Aboukir, the death of General 
Marceau, the Battle of Austerlitz, &c. The frieze contains historical reliefs, 
and in the attic are shields with the names of the victories. In the walls 
are steps by which the summit of the arch is gained and a fine prospect 
commanded. 
We must here mention two monuments of similar import, the Column 
of the Place Venddme and the Column of July in Paris. In the middle 
of the Place Vendéme was erected in 1699 an equestrian statue of Louis 
XIV., modelled by Gerardon, which was destroyed upon the day of the 
execution of Louis X VI., who was forced to behold the outrage. When 
Napoleon seized the reins of government, he resolved to immortalize the 
battle of Austerlitz, and to erect a column after the model of Trajan’s 
Column in Rome, and from a drawing of the architect Lepére. It was 
erected of stone, and surrounded by 274 bronze reliefs from Bergerel’s 
designs, spirally arranged in 22 windings. The column is of the Tuscan 
order, 108 feet high, and with the substructure 124 feet. The shaft is 
11 feet thick. Pl. 53, jig. Ta, shows the column as it now is, and 
jig. 7b, a view of its prototype, the Column of Trajan. The colossal statue 
of Napoleon was 10-11 feet high, and represented the emperor in antique 
warrior’s costume, resting with the right hand upon a sword, and bearing in 
the left a globe with the victory (jig. 8). But it was removed in 1814. 
After the revolution of July it was resolved to replace the statue of Napo- 
leon upon the column; but his modern costume was chosen (jig. 9) on the 
one hand because it had become world-renowned, and on the other because 
all the figures in relief were in modern costume. The metal of the column 
weighs 1,800,000 pounds, and it was built of captured cannon. The labor 
alone cost 1,200,000 francs. Upon the pedestal is the Latin inseription 
represented in jig. 7c, and on the upper part of the capital a Freneh one, 
relating to the building of the column, begun under Denon, Lepére, and 
Gondoin on the 25th August, 1806, and completed on the 15th August, 
1810. 
Upon the site of the Bastille destroyed on the 14th July, 1789, it was 
proposed to erect a fountain, with an elephant 40 feet high, the plaster 
model of which still exists. But after the July revolution, it was deter- 
mined to decorate the place with a column in remembrance of those who 
had fallen there; and Louis Philippe on the 28th July, 1831, laid the 
corner-stone, and on the 29th July, 1840, it was consecrated. P7. 58, 
jig. 10 a gives the view; jig. 106, the inscription upon the pedestal ; and 
jig. 11 a view of the Column of Antonine in Rome, which served as the 
model. The Column of July stands upon a vaulted foundation, through 
which passes the canal of St. Martin, and it has a double substructure, one 
round, with an inner gallery, and one square, over it, of granite and white 
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