Emperor Napoleon I Memorial

The Emperor Napoleon I Memorial is a sculpture in Warsaw, Poland, placed at the Warsaw Insurgents Square, within the North Downtown neighbourhood. Its dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, an 18th-century general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815, leader of the French First Republic, and later the First French Empire. It depicts him in form of a bronze bust placed on a tall plinth. The original sculpture, designed by Jan Antoni Biernacki, was first unveiled in 1921, before being taken down a few months later, and replaced with another, made by Michał Kamieński, in 1923. It was again removed after the Second World War, with its copy unveiled on 5 May 2011.