Columns In Place Of The Editorial Image

In 1784, Claude Nicolas Ledoux erected two columns to frame the barrier Grant (Wall of the Farmers-General) and the entrance to the Cours de Vincennes. They were not yet surmounted by statues of Philip Augustus and Saint Louis are not added until 1845. After August 10, 1792, the place was renamed Place du Trone-Reversed. It is still a wasteland. It is in the southern part, the more shaded, near the right pavilion built by Ledoux, the guillotine was erected 14 June 17942. Thousand three hundred and six political prisoners are executed until 9 Thermidor Year II (27 July 1794) and thrown into mass graves of two Picpus cemetery.