Which war booty from the Franco-Prussian War ended up being mounted on Berlin's public buildings?

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Hi
Which war booty from the Franco-Prussian War ended up being mounted on Berlin’s public buildings?
Which war booty from previous Franco-German battles ended up being mounted on public building in Paris?

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The obvious usual practice in the period was to use captured cannons as a source of bronze for commemorative purposes (as in the UK using pieces seized in the Crimean War for the metal in Victoria Crosses).

In the case of Berlin, the Victory Column incorporates (unmelted-down) cannon captured in the Franco-Prussian War.

Previously, Napoleon had carted the Quadriga - the chariot statue - from the Brandenburg Gate off to Paris, though I don’t know how it was then displayed there. The Prussians duly took it back in 1814.

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Thanks bonzer. I had the same question when it came to the Quadriga, namely whether the French had gotten a chance to mount it on any public edifice in Paris or not.

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Several locations were considered, such as the Madeleine, the Arc de Triomphe and the Pont-Neuf, but it was still in storage in 1814.

Some of the war booty from the Franco-Prussian War was displaying not in Berlin but in Potsdam, in the form of the captured French standards hung in the Garnisonkirche. Those disappeared in 1919 in mysterious circumstances so that they would not have to be returned under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

Not all art works looted by Napoleon were returned after 1814-15. That was because the process of restitution was almost as messy as that after 1945. So, for example, one of the biggest collections of paintings looted from Germany had been that of the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Many of those paintings were given to Josephine and they were subsequently sold by her children to Tsar Alexander I. So most of them are now in the Hermitage. The idea that not everything looted by Napoleon had been returned to Germany was used by the Nazis as one excuse for looting French collections after 1940.

(The fact that some of the Napoleonic loot from Italy really is still in the Lourve was why Vincenzo Peruggia stole the *Mona Lisa * in the mistaken belief that that was why it was there.)

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Thanks APB. Very helpful.