La Colonne de la Grande Armée, Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Boulogne
The column was erected in the 1840s and is a fifty-three metre-high monument topped with a statue of Napoleon Bonaparte. (Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square is shorter at forty-six metres high). It marks the base camp where Napoleon massed France’s biggest ever army of eighty thousand men ready to invade England.
It was initially intended to commemorate a successful invasion of England, but this proved to be a bit premature and as he didn’t quite manage that it now commemorates instead the first distribution of the Imperial Légion d’honneur.
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Really like this, it’s fascinating how the DOF of this shot almost gives it a 3D effect!
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Thanks. It was just a fluke shot!
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The best laid plans, eh?
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I think a lot of invasion plans were spoilt in this part of France.
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Thats very clever, I love it!
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Thank You!
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Perfect positioning, Andrew.
janet
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Thank You Janet
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That’s a TALL monument. However did you manage this great shot?
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I just pulled myself up to my full 5’6″ and snapped away! Thanks for the comment!
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🙂
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