Monument of Maréchal Moncey
Place de Clichy and the Monument of Maréchal Moncey
The Place de Clichy, also known as "Place Clichy", is situated in the northwestern quadrant of Paris.
It is also unusual in that it has been untouched by urban planners and is one of the few places in Paris where four arrondissements (the 8th, 9th, 17th, and 18th) meet at a single point.
In March 1814, at the close of the First French Empire, 800,000 soldiers of various foreign armies marched on Paris.
After breaking through the barriers at Belleville and Pantin, they took the hill of Montmartre.
Paris was protected in the north from Clichy to Neuilly, by 70,000 men of the garde nationale.
In the face of the advancing enemy, the Maréchal de Moncey defended the barrière de Clichy.
Moncey amassed 15,000 volunteers, tirailleurs — students from the École polytechnique and the École vétérinaire — and, despite their inexperience, valiantly resisted the Russian contingent until an armistice was declared on 30 March 1814.
A six-metre-tall bronze statue, executed by Amédée Doublemard and dedicated to de Moncey, stands on an ornate pedestal eight metres tall.
www.histoires-de-paris.fr/monument-place-de-clichy/
Monument of Maréchal Moncey
Place de Clichy and the Monument of Maréchal Moncey
The Place de Clichy, also known as "Place Clichy", is situated in the northwestern quadrant of Paris.
It is also unusual in that it has been untouched by urban planners and is one of the few places in Paris where four arrondissements (the 8th, 9th, 17th, and 18th) meet at a single point.
In March 1814, at the close of the First French Empire, 800,000 soldiers of various foreign armies marched on Paris.
After breaking through the barriers at Belleville and Pantin, they took the hill of Montmartre.
Paris was protected in the north from Clichy to Neuilly, by 70,000 men of the garde nationale.
In the face of the advancing enemy, the Maréchal de Moncey defended the barrière de Clichy.
Moncey amassed 15,000 volunteers, tirailleurs — students from the École polytechnique and the École vétérinaire — and, despite their inexperience, valiantly resisted the Russian contingent until an armistice was declared on 30 March 1814.
A six-metre-tall bronze statue, executed by Amédée Doublemard and dedicated to de Moncey, stands on an ornate pedestal eight metres tall.
www.histoires-de-paris.fr/monument-place-de-clichy/