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upon which is placed a triumphal car; to itare attached the four famous Corinthianhorses taken from Venice , conducted byVictory and Peace , figures in plornb d'or.The building itself is fifty feet high: overthe centre arch there is a bas-relief figure ofthe Emperor in his robes, crowned byVictory , and above each of the smallerarches is another bas-relief commemoratingone of his famous actions in the campaignof 1805.

Another monument, sufficient in itself toperpetuate the memory of this extraordi-nary man, is a pillar of bronze, cast en-tirely out of the cannon taken at the battleof Austerlitz. It is 135 feet in height, and12 in diameter, placed upon a square pe-destal 30 feet from the ground. The shaftof this pillar is entirely covered with a spi-ral succession of bas-reliefs, commemorat-ing, in chronological order, the events ofthe campaign of 1805; commencing withthe departure of the army from the campat Boulogne , and terminating with the bat-tle of Austerlitz. On the top is a gallery,