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One of such was the Lion of Belfort, a monumental sculpture carved in sandstone under the fortress of Belfort, which over the war had resisted a Prussian siege for more than three months. The defiant lion, 73 feet (22 m) extensive and half that in peak, shows an emotional quality attribute of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would afterwards convey to