A giant elephant in Paris?
Is there really a giant elephant statue in Paris?
They should build one if not. I like it way better than the Eiffel Tower.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAkY_ygFmak
Apparently there was. It's long gone now, and the Eiffel Tower is AWESOME in person! No elephant could possibly be as awesome, unless it were large enough to fill a city block.
shareLarge enough for a few defiant orphans to live in like on the movie would be cool enough to me (•‿•)
shareWell, I got curious enough to spend 30 seconds of research on the statue, and it was only around for about 30 years. Napoleon I commissioned it and wanted a huge bronze statue, but it was never cast and there was never anything but a flimsy wood-and-plaster thing, even if it was impressively huge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_of_the_Bastille
Oh wow. Those drawings are fantastic.
I'm glad it really existed.
I like the rag tag wood and plaster, it was the elephant of the street urchins, it shouldn't have been bronze.
I think the one in the movie was actually smaller than the real one. I have no idea if there were smaller elephant statues scattered around Paris, and I'm not going to look it up.
shareI don't know if they were supposed to be in Paris.
On the lyrics he sings "here in the slums of Saint Michele"
It is Paris. Saint Michele is a neighborhood in Paris. Currently, at least, I believe it is a nice area. However, in the 1830's it may have been more slum-like. (I have no explicit information to prove that.) It is clear from the text and information given in the stage musical (if not the film), however, that they are in Paris.
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Anything about medium-large elephant statues?
shareNo.
But something even better from your link.
I love this.
"Alavoine, realising the need to show how the finished work would look, recruited Pierre-Charles Bridan to create a full-size model using plaster over a wooden frame.[3][9] Completed in 1814, the model was protected by a guard named Levasseur who lived in one of the elephant's legs."
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