Grave of Victor Noir

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Victor Noir's grave is a grave in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise in Paris, in which the remains of Victor Noir, a journalist killed in 1870 by Pierre-Napoleon Bonaparte, were transferred in 1891. To adorn this new tomb, a bronze gissant was carved in 1890 by Jules Dalou, a staunch defender of the Republic, having become a republican symbol because of the kinship of his murderer with Emperor Napoleon III. This sculpture is the object of a tradition of touching parts of it.