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A statue of the Empress Joséphine was installed in Fort-de-France, Martinique, from 1859 until 2020. It commemorated Empress Joséphine (the first wife of Napoleon), who was born on Martinique, and was commissioned by her grandson Napoleon III from the sculptor Gabriel Vital Dubray. In 2020 it was destroyed by activists during the George Floyd protests.[1]
| Statue of the Empress Joséphine | |
|---|---|
 The statue in 2019 | |
| Artist | Gabriel Vital Dubray |
| Year | 1859 |
| Medium | Marble |
| Location | La Savane, Fort-de-France, Martinique |
History
On 21 September 1991 the statue was decapitated;[2] its head was never found. On 26 July 2020 the statue was torn down by "anti-racism protesters". This was condemned by public officials; however, a police source told the press that they had received orders not to interfere with the protesters. Around the same time the protesters also destroyed a nearby statue of Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, erected in 1935, and several months prior, in April, they destroyed two statues of Victor Schœlcher, claiming that the authorities should honour black emancipation leaders instead of the colonial heritage.[1]
See also
References
- "Anti-racism protesters in Martinique tear down statue of Napoleon's wife". RFI. July 27, 2020.
- Sago, Kylie (2019). "Beyond the headless Empress: Gabriel Vital Dubray's statues of Josephine, Edouard Glissant's Tout-monde, and contested monuments of French empire". Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 41 (5): 501–519. doi:10.1080/08905495.2019.1674579. S2CID 213766590.
External links
Media related to Statue de l'impératrice Joséphine at Wikimedia Commons
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- [en] Statue of the Empress Joséphine
[es] Estatua de la Emperatriz Josefina
La Estatua de la Emperatriz Josefina[1] (en francés: Statue de l'impératrice Joséphine)[2] fue un monumento de mármol blanco realizado a la memoria de Josefina de Beauharnais y situado en la Plaza de la Savane en Fort-de-France, Martinica[3] un territorio de Francia en el Mar Caribe.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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