In 1878 the Town Council of Paris (the Radicals and the Socialists) proposed to build a monument designed to celebrate the power and the glory of the French Republic and their capital. To be located in the heart of Paris, a designer wasn’t found until 1880. The site itself wasn’t completed until 1883. The central spire holds aloft a bronze statue of the Republic. Its right hand tightens around an olive branch while its left arm supports the “Tables of the Law” (on which are engraved "Human right thereafter").

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Around the centre of the pillar are three large detached stone pillars; they represent “Freedom” holding broken irons and a torch, “Equality” holding the Tricolour and a level, and “Fraternity” surrounded by agricultural attributes and children. The stone pedestal to the east girds twelve bronzes, which are connected by rosettes. They represent the major events that caused the birth of the Republic, between 1789 and 1880. A green bronze lion (lying at the foot of the monument in front of a ballot box) symbolizes the “vote for all”.

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