The triumph of the Republic, monument of the place of the nation. Sculpture by Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "The Republic a hundred years after 1789 became France itself. It is the necessary coronation of our immortal revolution". Extract from the speech delivered by M. Carnot (1837-1894) at the banquet of mayors of France on August 18, 1889. Inaugurated monument (in painted plaster) on September 21, 1889, on the Place de la Nation. Paris (11th and 12th arr.). Photograph by Pierre Petit, known as Pierre Lanith Petit (1831-1909). Heliography, around 1889. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 123087-6

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