Word: napoles
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...competition for a figure to represent the Republic. Ten were submitted and Sculptor Soitout's winning bust was exhibited with much éclat in the Salon of 1850. There was some talk of ordering replicas for public buildings, but while the discussion was still going on pale Louis Napoléon abruptly ended the Second Republic with his famed whiff of grapeshot. Soitout's Marianne was hustled away to an attic. There she stayed for 28 years. With the Third Republic firmly established, Marianne was hauled out for the Exposition of 1878. At the close of the Exposition...