La Colonne de la Grande Armée is a monument constructed in the 1840s and is a fifty-three metre-high column topped with a statue of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
It marks the location of the base camp where Napoleon assembled an army of eighty thousand men all reeking of garlic, singing 'La Marseillaise' and impatient to invade England. It was initially intended to commemorate a successful campaign, but this proved to be rather premature and as he didn't quite manage that it now remembers instead the first distribution of the Imperial Légion d'honneur.
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