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Sculpture at the Chalons Camp

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As soon as the Chalons camp opened in 1857, the regiments put up flagpoles monuments on the color-lines that bordered their billets, and these gave an important place to sculpture. From year to year, covered with little gardens lovingly cared for by the troops, the color-lines took on the look of an open-air gallery for military sculpture and all of the visitors were struck by these unexpected examples of "fine art" in a place dedicated to the art of war.

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[A Visit to the Chalons camp under the Second Empire]
[The Imperial Quarter] [The Zouaves] [Billeting] [Maneuvers] [Mass] [Sculpture at the Chalons Camp] [Nighttime Scenes]