Bronze plaque № 9294

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# The Burghers of Calais at Victoria Tower Gardens Standing in Victoria Tower Gardens, you are in the presence of one of sculpture's most profound meditations on sacrifice and dignity—Auguste Rodin's "The Burghers of Calais," which inspired this bronze plaque's installation at this verdant Westmins...

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Victoria Tower Gardens

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These figures known as The Burghers of Calais commemorate six citizens of that town who offered themselves to Edward III after he had vainly besieged their town for nearly a year in 1347. The story goes that their lives were spared on the intercession of Edward's queen Philippa of Hainault