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The overthrow of the statue of Napoleon I which was on top of the Colomne Vendome, during the civil war between the Third Republic and the Paris Commune, following the Franco-Prussian war. The painter Gustave Courbet is ninth from the right (with large beard). From the Marguerite Millan Collection. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The overthrow of the statue of Napoleon I which was on top of the Colomne Vendome, during the civil war between the Third Republic and the Paris Commune, following the Franco-Prussian war. The painter Gustave Courbet is ninth from the right (with large beard). From the Marguerite Millan Collection.   (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)