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Show Lion of Lucerne The Lion of Lucerne Is a famous piece of sculpture by Albert Thorwald-sen, Thorwald-sen, commemorating the heroism end devotion of nearly eight hundred hun-dred Swiss guards, who died to save Louis XVI, in the attack on the Tuileries, August 10. 1792. . The colossal figure of the crouching lion, transfixed and dying, but still faithfully defending the shield of France, is carved In a recess In the face of an upright, vine-draped rock in a little park at Lucerne, Switzerland. Switzer-land. A cimimemorative in crtption, with the names of the officers killed, is cut in the rock. |