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| Le Lion de Belfort (The Lion of Belfort) is a hammered copy of the pink sandstone Lion erected in Belfort, France. Self-financed and sculpted by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, the architect of the Statue of Liberty, from 1872 to 1879, the original 22-meter long Lion de Belfort symbolizes the heroic resistance of Belfort during a 103 days long Prussian assault, from December 1870 to February 1871 during the Franco-Prussian War. The city was protected from 40,000 Prussians by just 17,000 men (only 3,500 were from the military). The replica was installed in Place Denfer-Rochereau in 1880, and restored in 2001. Place Denfert-Rochereau, is named after Colonel Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau, French commander during the Siege of Belfort. | |
| Location: Catacombs of Paris | State/Province: �le-de-France | Country: France | See map | |
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