Copper plate sculpture located in the center of Place Denfert-Rochereau, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, the Lion of Belfort is the work of the artist Auguste Bartholdi.
At the sculpture fair in 1878, the master exhibited a plaster reproduction of his future work, which was then bought by the city council of the capital. The current Lion of Belfort will be realized two years later. Today inscribed in the Historical Monuments, the sculpture looks in the direction of the statue of Liberty, another major work of Bartholdi.
It is a replica of the third of the Lion of Belfort located in Belfort. It is four meters high and seven meters long. It aims to represent the resistance of Colonel Denfert-Rochereau during the Siege of Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
