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Napoleon I in Place d’Austerlitz in Ajaccio

Commemorative monument of Napoleon I. Ajaccio, place d’Austerlitz
Commemorative monument of Napoleon I. Ajaccio, place d’Austerlitz

In 1935, public underwriting was promoted for the placement in the Place du Casone (today the Place d’Austerlitz) of a monument to Napoleon featuring a copy of the statue of the emperor made by Charles–Emile–Marie Seurre in 1833 and placed on the column of the Place Vendôme in Paris.
On 11 September 1936, Albert Chauvel, architect of Historical Monuments, went to Ajaccio to meet with mayor Dominique Paoli to discuss the project for the erection of a monument to Napoleon in Ajaccio that the Committee had sent to his administration. In March 1937, the model for the monument, which was in Nice, arrived in Ajaccio and the work was entrusted to the League of Major Works of Marseilles.
The inauguration of the monument in 1938 inspired four days of celebration, from 14 to 17 August.
The bronze statue depicts the emperor in a frontal, standing pose and tops a monumental granite pyramid. The whole is introduced by a stair flanked by two bronze eagles with open wings

Napoleon I
Place d’Austerlitz
Ajaccio