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After the death of Maria Luisa in 1824, the commune voted for the creation of a statue in her honor, and contracted for a design by
Lorenzo Bartolini. The sculpture is in the center of the large rectangular Piazza Grande, or Piazza Napoleone, in front of the palace had been cleared in 1806 by the
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Napoleonic government, in the process razing houses, warehouses, and the church of San Pietro
Maggiore. Initially a statue honoring Napoleon had been planned for this spot, but Maria Luisa, who held a personal antipathy to the former French emperor and his family (Napoleon's sister
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had ruled Lucca as
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The awkward statue depicts the somewhat rotund
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