The Column of the Goddess is the popular name given by the citizens of Lille (France) to the Memorial of the Siege of 1792. The memorial is still in the center of the Grand′ Place (central square) of Lille, and has been surrounded by a fountain since around 1990.
Siege of Lille
Part of the French Revolutionary War
The Austrian bombardement of Lille in October 1792. Painting by Louis Joseph Watteau on The Siege of Lille
revolution. Thecolumn typically stands on a base and is crowned with a victory symbol, such as a statue. The statue may represent thegoddess Victoria;...
Greek) is thegoddessof marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth. In Greek mythology, she is queen ofthe twelve Olympians...
Revolution, the Austrians, then in the United Provinces, laid siege to Lille. The "ColumnoftheGoddess", erected in 1842 in the "Grand-Place" (officially named...
The Battle of Valmy, also known as the Cannonade of Valmy, was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed...
mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological...
given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva...
1701" on the base ofthecolumn supporting thegoddessof Justice, and with Themis holding a set of scales in her hand, this vast portrait is that of an aging...
The Victory Column (German: Siegessäule pronounced [ˈziːɡəsˌzɔɪ̯lə] , from Sieg 'victory' + Säule 'column') is a monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed...
represent the duality between different aspects ofthegoddess or the watchfulness of Hathor ofthe Four Faces. The designs of Hathoric columns have a complex...
of Samothrace, a marble sculpture displayed at the Louvre Victory, 1902 statue in New York City by Augustus Saint-Gaudens Victory columnGoddessof Victory:...
ancient, localised form ofthegoddess Artemis (equalized to Diana, a Roman goddess). It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day...
[nýks], "Night") is thegoddess and personification ofthe night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera...
equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is thegoddessof fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique...
was thegoddessof security and stability, especially the security ofthe Roman Empire. On coinage Securitas was usually depicted leaning on a column. Dictionary...
Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddessof love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political...
needed]), also known as the Advice Goddess, is an American advice columnist. Alkon wrote a weekly advice column, Ask the Advice Goddess, which was published...