The monument is a bronze equestrian statue of Simón BolÃÂvar in describing horse. The statue is located on the course the Queen, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, at the mouth of the Pont Alexandre III. The statue is the fourth copy of the work of French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet, commissioned in the early twentieth century by the city of Bogota, Colombia. A copy is available in 1930 by the Latin republics during the centenary of the death of Simon Bolivar America. Two other copies are built in Barranquilla in Colombia and La Paz in Bolivia. Born in Caracas July 24, 1783, and died in Santa Marta December 17, 1830 Liberating the Andean countries as it released a large part of South America from Spanish rule. Also, the pedestal says donor countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Panama He lived in Paris, where he attended the Ecole Normale Superieure and the Ecole Polytechnique.
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