Street art · Paris
Photo: Bärbel Miemietz, CC BY-SA 4.0
La Victoire ou l'Hommage à l'abolition de l'esclavage
By Yvan Maston
Weathered plaque, gilded history: bronze figure "La Victoire," Yvan Maston's 2000 tribute to the abolition of slavery — part Delacroix's Liberty, part civic monument, honoring French Caribbean identity in patinated metal.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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