Lucerne's Lion Monument, Switzerland. In The Early 1800S, The Danish Artist Bertel Thorvaldsen Was Hired To Sculpt A Monument To The Fallen Swiss Guards, When More Than 700 Swiss Officers And Soldiers Died While Defending King Louis Xvi, Marie-Antoinette, And Their Children, During The French Revolution. The Sculpture Was Carved In A Sandstone Cliff Above The City Center, Near Lucerne's Glacier Garden And The Panorama, And It Has Attr

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