Jules Dalou, now sixty, completes the naturalistic…
1899 CE
It is erected to mark the centenary of the Revolution, at first in plaster in 1889 and then in bronze in 1899.
The figure of Marianne, personifying the Republic, stands on a globe in a chariot pulled by lions and surrounded by various symbolic figures, and looks towards the Place de la Bastille.
When the monument is erected, it is surrounded by a large pond.
Additional sculptures of alligators, symbols for the threats to democracy, will be removed during the Nazi occupation of Paris and melted down.