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It is about a monument: French name : La colonne Lilloise (meaning - column of the Goddess).
Wiki: The Column of the Goddess is the popular name given by the
citizens of Lille (France) to the Memorial of the Siege of 1792. The memorial
is still in the center of the Grand′ Place (central square) of Lille, and has
been surrounded by a fountain since around 1990.
The siege of September 1792 was one of the many battles
fought during the French Revolutionary Wars and considered a major event in the
city's history by its inhabitants, despite its relatively low military
significance on a wider scale.
A few months earlier, in April 1792, French forces in the
same area did not conduct themselves well - fleeing after a skirmish with
Austrian forces and afterwards killing their own commander, Théobald Dillon.
This might have made the Austrians expect an easy victory, which as it turned
out was not the case.
An Austrian army of 20,000 men besieged the city of
Lille.[3] Then the city was attacked by Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen. For
nine days and nights, the Austrians bombarded the city without intermission,
but had ultimately to raise the siege, faced with the determined resistance of
the citizens, led by Mayor François André. The Austrians destroyed many houses
and the main church (Saint-Etienne) of the city, which was on the Grand′ Place
(today the Place du Général de Gaulle). "The siege of Lille in 1792 was,
from a purely military perspective, not a significant event. It is clear that
contemporaries sought to exaggerate both the scale and the importance of the
Austrian attack on Lille.
More info (in French) :
http://archives.lille.fr/Document-du-moment/p325/1792-Lille-a-bien-merite-de-la-Patrie
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