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Show THE NAPOLEON COLUMN, Tbe creat pillar in the Place Ven-dome, Ven-dome, (hencetbrth, till further advices, to be called the Place Internationale), was erected by tho first Napoleon to commemorate his victory at Austerlitz and those that had preceded it. It was modeled alter the column of Trajan Tra-jan at Kouie, but was three feet higher, being one huudred and thirty-five high and surmounted by a bronze natue of Napoleon in his grev overcoat over-coat and cocked bat. Austerliia was won in December, 1S05, but tbe column col-umn was not finished till 1810. Itwas a Doric pillar of stone,, but completely covered with bas reliefs in bronze, representing rep-resenting the victories of Italy and Austria woo by tha French emperor, i and one thousand two hundred Russian Rus-sian and Austrian cannon, captured ir the unparalleled campaign which cul hi naled iu the final overthrow of tbe ancient German empire, were cast into ibe ornaments of tins triumphal monument. mon-ument. When the n lies occupied Paris in 1815, they fastened ropes round the neck of the bronze emperor em-peror on t lie Vendome column, and, liaulin',' biiu down, raised thereon the A'hi e fljg of the Bourbon lilies. In 1830, alter tho revolution of July, tbe luke ol Orleans made a compromise wnb the popular feeling by restoring theempirur to his post. A genera tion pa.-sed away, aud France found the nephew of the emperor upon the emperor's throne. Iu 1S66 the char icieiistic ligiiro in the surtout and cocked hat was taken down and replaced re-placed by a Roman Napoleon in the garb ofa Csc-urof antiquity, carrying out the pet idea of Louis Napoleon, .hat he aud bis unele were in tho line f the Roman La; ;urs. It is this bas ard Napo'eon, and Dot tbe tauiiliar tigure of th-: ''little corporal" that the Parisians have just smashed into bits. .e. |