The Vercingetorix Monument (French: Monument à Vercingétorix) is a statuary monument dedicated to the Gaulish chieftain Vercingetorix, defeated by Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars.
The monument was designed by Aimé Millet and constructed in 1865.
[1] The monument was commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III from the sculptor Aimé Millet and installed in 1865 on Mont Auxois, near Alise-Sainte-Reine in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France.
[2] The base has a nationalistic inscription installed by Viollet-le-Duc, translating into French the words of Julius Caesar: La Gaule unie Formant une seule nation Animée d'un même esprit, Peut défier l'Univers.
(Gaul united, Forming a single nation Animated by a common spirit, Can defy the Universe.)