Column of Place Vendôme shortly after it falls

Thas is a lot of rubble, is a small area, the blocks look pummled. I wonder how they go this thing down? Going by the state of the scaffolding, they didn't climb up and do it bring by brick... Looks like the area is roped off too, stop anyone getting too close.

Timeshifter said:

I wonder how they go this thing down?

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Apparently this here and here was the "mechanism" they used.

I'm yet to see a photograph of the falling column, but they do have three drawings, and they do not look the same.

• Version #1
• Version #2
• Version #3

Take a look at this 1873 image of the reconstruction of the column.

Always drawings of the event, never photos... but photos either side of the event.. in version 1 image, there are people on the scaffolding!