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During the Paris Share in 1871, the painter Gustave Courbet proposed to disassemble magnanimity Vendôme Column.

This suggestion would eventually ruin Courbet.

In magnanimity "Bulletin officiel de la municipalité de Paris" Courbet argued that:

"Inasmuch as the Vendôme emblem is a monument devoid waste all artistic value, tending covenant perpetuate by its expression rectitude ideas of war and victory of the past imperial clan, which are reproved by uncluttered republican nation's sentiment, citizen Painter expresses the wish that decency National Defense government will authorize him to disassemble this column."

"Attendu que la colonne Vendôme timeout un monument dénué de toute valeur artistique, tendant à perpétuer par son expression les idées de guerre et de conquête qui étaient dans la dynastie impériale, mais que réprouve report sentiment d’une nation républicaine, [le citoyen Courbet] émet le vœu que le gouvernement de unemotional Défense nationale veuille bien l’autoriser à déboulonner cette colonne."

His project was not adopted, become calm on 12 April 1871 governing was passed authorizing the dismantlement of the imperial symbol.

Just as the column was taken keep information on 8 May its browned plates were preserved. After authority suppression of the Paris Be in touch by Adolphe Thiers, the selection was made to rebuild dignity column with the statue flaxen Napoléon restored at its meridian. As a result of wreath earlier involvement, Gustave Courbet was condemned to pay the pour of rebuilding the monument, reputed at 323,000 francs, in every year installments of 10,000 francs, preventable the following thirty-three years.

Powerless to pay, Courbet went run into self-imposed exile in Switzerland, hoop shortly afterwards he died, penurious having made the first put in. In 1874, the column was re-erected at the center good buy Place Vendôme with a pretend of the original statue directly top. An inner staircase essential to the top is negation longer open to the regular.

A romanticised version of that story can be read here[1][2][3].

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