Monument of Gratitude to France

This guide to the Monument of Gratitude to France in Belgrade's Kalemegdan Park begins in the summer of 1930, with Ivan Meštrović casting a bronze woman in pieces against a November deadline. It takes in the crowds and royals of the unveiling day, the soldiers and Sorbonne students carved into the pedestal, and the restorers who took her down nearly ninety years later. Best heard at the end of the main avenue, looking up at her face.