La Vierge du Puy en version anglaise

Voici la version anglaise d'un article que j'avais publié et que travelfranceonline a adapté. Encore merci Notre-Dame-de-France statue in figures Notre-Dame-de-France was cast with the bronze recovered from the Russian cannons captured at the Battle of Sebastopol , a gift from Napoleon III . Construction was quite a challenge, though, because of its monumental proportions. A life-size plaster prototype was first built in order to define the assembly joints of the different parts, as it couldn’t be cast in one piece. Notre-Dame-de-France is therefore made of 105 cast iron pieces assembled together...