Places to see in ( Bordeaux - France ) Monument aux Girondins

Places to see in ( Bordeaux - France ) Monument aux Girondins

The monument to the Girondins , located in Bordeaux , Place des Quinconces , was built between 1894 and 1902 in memory of the Girondin deputies victims of the Terror . The Bordelais commonly call it "column of Girondins" or "monument of the Girondins". It is classified as a historical monument since March 16 , 2011after being registered on July 8 , 2004 , the classification having been approved by the Bordeaux City Council on October 25, 2010.

As early as 1868, the architect Julien Guadet , grand-nephew of the Girondin deputy Elie Guadet , established a project for the memory of the Girondins for the place Dauphine - today Place Gambetta - in Bordeaux. It is on this place that the last executions of Girondin deputies, including Elie Guadet, and their supporters, took place in 1794 . Exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1870 , the project will not be realized. In 1881, the city council of the city of Bordeaux made the decision to erect a monument in memory of the deputies of the group of Girondins.

It consists of a large base framed by two basins, decorated with horses and bronze groups, and surmounted by a column of 43 meters where culminates (at 54 meters height) the bronze statue of Liberty breaking its chains .

The following groups are among the sculptures :

to the Grand Theater : the triumph of the Republic . At the foot of the chariot and its horses : Ignorance, Lie and Vice. The quadriga of the sea horses is a representation of Happiness;
towards the Chartrons: the triumph of Concorde ;
towards the river: the Tribune with the Gallic rooster , on its right: History, and on its left: Eloquence (two seated people);
to Place Tourny: the city of Bordeaux sitting on the bow of a ship with a cornucopia . To the right of the base, a river allegory : the Dordogne , and left the Garonne .

The realization of all the sculptures was shared between several art founders with the following distribution:

the Denonvilliers foundry of Sermaize-sur-Sault (Marne): the four reptilian horses and Liberty;
the Establishments Leblanc-Barbedienne of Paris: the first group realized for the basin of the Republic, "the lie, the vice and the ignorance";
the Durenne establishments of Sommevoire (Haute-Marne): "The triumph of the Republic", the shells, the frogs, the reeds and the six children (the first group of three children represents Trade and Industry, the second group evokes the Fine Arts)
the foundry of Val d'Osne (Haute-Marne): the "Republic", the basin of the "triumph of the Concorde ", and the four horses-fish.

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