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Rising almost twenty eight metres above Place Maréchal Foch, this slender stone column tells a story full of historical irony. The project was first conceived in 1788 to honour the reigning king, funded by public subscription, but the Revolution arrived before it was finished and the monument was reinvented as a Column of Liberty under the great Nantes architect Mathurin Crucy. For decades it stood without a figure on top. Only in 1823, once the monarchy had been restored, did the sculptor Dominique Molknecht finally raise a statue of Louis the Sixteenth to the summit, in memory of the so called martyr king. Damaged over the years, the statue was rebuilt in 1926 and restored again by the city in 2011, leaving Nantes with one of the very few surviving royal columns of its kind.
Fatti principali
- 1790 year — Work on the column first began, before the Revolution reinvented it as a Column of Liberty
- 1823 year — The statue of Louis the Sixteenth was finally raised to the top by sculptor Dominique Molknecht
- 28 metres — The height of the column towering above Place Maréchal Foch
📍 Place Maréchal Foch, 44000, Nantes