20 Jetons
Napoléon replacé sur la Colonne en Juillet 1833
(Napoleon replaced on the Column in July, 1833)
Brass round, 22 mm
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A first statue of Napoleon 1st, in suit of Roman Emperor, was installed at the top of the Column Vendôme in its construction in 1806. Thrown down to ground in 1814 in the entrance of the allied armies, it was replaced by a flower of lis surmounted by a white flag. Then, by the will of king Louis-Philippe, Napoleon Ist's statue, but this time with its frock coat and its hat, is replaced with big ceremony, on July 28th, 1833, at the top of the column Vendôme. Replaced again by Napoleon III by its counterpart in Roman suit, destroyed under the Paris Commune of 1871, it was definitively restored in 1873.