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Paris - Place de la République

Arts-et-Métiers/Enfants-Rouges/Porte-Saint-Martin/Folie-Méricourt) | Place de la République

At the center of the Place de la République is a bronze statue of Marianne, the personification of the French Republican, "holding aloft an olive branch in her right hand and resting her left on a tablet engraved with Droits de l'homme".

Arch. & sculptors: Léopold Morice and Charles Morice

1883.

After terrorist attacks against France in November 2015, the monument became a symbol of peace and against the threat of Islamic extremism.

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Uploaded on June 23, 2016
Taken on December 5, 2015