"The statue the Poles installed is more than 4.5 meters tall, and mounted on a plinth of clear granite. They didn't position this monument just anywhere in their capital, but in the Place of the Warsaw Uprising, a site and a name that are highly symbolic because they refer to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation.
The Polish section of the Mutual Aid Society of Members of the Legion of Honor financed and directed the re-construction of the statue. It also organized the ceremony in the presence of the French Ambassador to Poland, M. François Barry Delongchamps, of the president of the Polish section of the Mutual Aid Society, M. Jean Caillot, of the National Security Advisor of the President of the Polish Republic, M. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, of the vice-marshal of the Polish Diet, M. Marek Kuchcinski, of the vice-marshal of the Polish Senate, Marek Ziolkowski, as well as the interim director of the office of architecture and urban planning of the Mayor of Warsaw, M. Marek Mikos.
The statue is located on the same spot where, on May 5, 1921, the first monument was erected. The original monument is preserved in the Museum of the Polish Army. It was originally intended to commemorate the centenary of the Emperor's death.
Thus we must salute these Poles and thank them all the more warmly for this gesture, especially moving because the inauguration took place on May 5 of that year, on the anniversary of the Emperor's death, 100 years earlier, on the bare rock of Saint Helena, a stain that the British government can never wash away.
A final word: Until the end of the Second World War, this site in Warsaw carried another name: Napoleon…"
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