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France Calais Bourse du Travail build 1939
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Nice shots!
Me, too!
I like this wee sign warning people not to be idiots while up there...
Brussel Jubelpark 1945
Ooo, I recognise this place, the two glass fronted buildings either side of the arch are museums, the inside of the left hand one...
The other one is a car museum.
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Very cool.
Vic Balshaw
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Agree. 
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A place to have to visit when near. Went a few times, was great.
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Places to spend many days looking!
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Polen Warsaw grave of the un known soldier.
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France St. Quentin Hotel de Ville
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Oh man! They got rid of the statue...how are people going to remember their history? 
Greg Boeser
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They won't.Oh man! They got rid of the statue...how are people going to remember their history?
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Slow down - there is a story behind everything.Oh man! They got rid of the statue...how are people going to remember their history?
In 1917, after the evacuation of the city, the bronzes were removed by the Germans and sent for melting. It was Louis Bertrand, a former practitioner of Theunissen (who died in 1918) who reconstructed the monumental ensemble between 1931 and 1933. In January 1942, thanks to the intervention of Mayor Pierre Seret, the bronzes narrowly escaped "the requisition of non-ferrous metals". In November 1989, the "Monument", as the people of Saint-Quentin call it, was dismantled to make way for an underground car park. After being stored for 8 years, it was built again from February to April 1998, on the Place du Huit-Octobre, which had been completely renovated. It is probably the monument that best represents the identity of the people of Saint-Quentin who, in the face of the disasters of war, have always united heroically against adversity.
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On the other hand, on this side of the ocean they do remove monuments in a jiffy, if the person in question doesn't match the "new trends" (check this article, unfortunately only one of the many...)
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