WHAT COULD REPLACE THE ROYAL STATUE ON THE SITE OF GUILLOTINING A KING AND QUEEN?
The Khédive of Egypt offers France an obelisk from Luxor to counter English ambitions — it is one of history's most perfect gifts:
(Set up in 1836)
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| Raising the Obelisk on Place de la Concorde, October 25 1836 by François Dubois, 1836, zoom |
Monumental, it dramatically fills the void:
The exploits of transporting and raising it are engraved on the pedestal.
The power the Obelisk evokes is so distant
that one forgets the guillotine.
that one forgets the guillotine.
The site has been
place de la Concorde ever since.
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