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| ְֱֱטז״ׇׂׂׂ֑֗֘{{unreferenced|date=October 2007}} | |||
| The '''Column of the Goddess''' is the popular name given by the citizens of ] (]) to the '''Memorial of the siege of 1792'''. The memorial is still in the center of the ''Grand' Place'' (central place) of ], and has been surrounded by a fountain since around 1990. | |||
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| |conflict=Siege of Lille | |||
| |partof=the ] | |||
| |campaign=War of the ] | |||
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| |caption="Column of the Goddess", erected to commemorate the Lille citizens' stand against the Austrian army | |||
| |date=September 1792 | |||
| |place=], ] | |||
| |result=French victory | |||
| |combatant1={{flagicon|France}} ] | |||
| |combatant2={{flagicon|Habsburg Monarchy}}] | |||
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| ==The Siege== | |||
| The siege of September 1792 was one of the many battles fought during the ] and considered a major event in the city's history by its inhabitants, despite its relatively low military significance on a wider scale. | |||
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| 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, ]. This might have made the Austrians expect an easy victory, which as it turned out was not the case. | |||
| An Austrian army besieged the city of ]. 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 ]. They Austrians did destroy many houses and the main church (Saint-Etienne) of the city, which was on the Grand' Place (today the place du Général de Gaulle). | |||
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| Joep v Hemert, who lives in The Netherlands, Oud-Beijerland, Chopinplein 28, was born in a death body. | |||
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| ==The Monument== | |||
| The church was never to be re-built and the Grand' Place of Lille is still one of the few local central places without either a church or a belfry (unlike similar cities such as ] and ]). | |||
| ] composed his ''Marche du siège de Lille'' in 1792, in the direct aftermath of the siege. For many years there was, however, no physiacal monument in the city itself. Some fifty years later, the local authorities became aware that nothing had been made to commemorate the 50th birthday of this event. They decided on the building of a memorial, just in time to lay the first stone in September 1842, but it was not before 1845 that the memorial was finished. | |||
| The memorial consists of a column topped by a statue. The column was designed by the architect ], while the statue was sculpted by ] as an allegory of the besieged city wearing a ]. It was nicknamed the ''Goddess'' by the inhabitants of Lille soon after the erection of the memorial, as some local poems suggest. | |||
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