Princess Diana Memorial – Flame of Liberty
Flame of Liberty on Place de l’Alma, given to France by the USA for the Statue of Liberty’s centennial, became an unofficial Princess Diana Memorial
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Thiers – French Capital of cutlery
Thiers in Monts du Forez in Auvergne, the French capital of cutlery and a picturesque medieval town clinging on the cliff above the turbulent Durolle River
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Stravinsky Fountain in Paris
Stravinsky Fountain, a set of 16 musical fountains created by the surrealist artists Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle and located by the Centre Pompidou
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Our Lady of Monton in Puy-de-Dôme
Our Lady of Monton, the monumental statue of the Virgin Mary built in order to redeem the atrocities of the French Revolution stands next to a WWI German gun
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Le Passe-Muraille – Montmartre Paris
Le Passe-Muraille means ‘the man who walks through walls’ and is the name of a bronze statue representing a man half trapped in a stonewall in Montmartre
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Place Denfert Rochereau – Lion de Belfort
Place Denfert Rochereau-Lion de Belfort honours Colonel Denfert-Rochereau who defended the Territoire de Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71
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Le Reseda – Monumental sculpture – Paris
Le Reseda, a monumental sculpture representative of the Raw Art created by the artist Dubuffet and exhibited in the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
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Abri Cap Blanc – Shelter – Vézère Valley
Abri Cap Blanc, the only illustration of monumental prehistoric sculpture in the world still visible in situ and listed as a World Heritage Site
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Abri Pataud – Eyzies Tayac Sireuil
Abri Pataud in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, a major Cro Magnon shelter showing 40 successive periods of human occupancy spread between 33,000BP and 17,000BP
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World Peace Statue – Grandcamp-Maisy – WWII
The World Peace Statue in Grandcamp-Maisy, a gift from the Chinese sculptor Yao Yuan to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings
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Bertrand du Guesclin – Thomas Canterbury
Bertrand du Guesclin, the Grand Constable of France and soldier who served King Charles V during the Hundred Years War and most celebrated French hero
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Brooding Soldier Canadian Memorial – WWI
Brooding Soldier Canadian Memorial, honours the memory of the men who died in 1915 in the first gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres in Flanders
