Memorials
Napoleon III erected a seven-meter-tall statue of Vercingétorix in 1865, created by the sculptor Aimé Millet, on the supposed site of Alesia. The architect for the memorial was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The impressive statue still stands. The inscription on the base, written by Viollet-le-Duc, copied by the famous statement of Julius Caesar, reads (in French):
- La Gaule unie
- Formant une seule nation
- Animée d'un même esprit,
- Peut défier l'Univers.
- Gaul united,
- Forming a single nation
- Animated by a common spirit,
- Can defy the Universe.
Many other monumental statues of Vercingetorix were erected in France during the 19th century, including one by Bartholdi on the Place de Jaude in Clermont-Ferrand (see first image).
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