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Winged Victory of Samothrace In 1863 Charles Champoiseau, an archeologist serving at Adrianople as consul for France, found over 100 pieces of marble on the island of Samothrace, overlooking the Aegean sea. He arranged to have these pieces transported to Paris, where they were reassembled at the Louvre into one of the most famous statues the world has ever known: the imposing eight-foot-tall Nike, Greek Goddess of Victory. Shown on the prow of a ship, the Winged Victory of Samothrace was no doubt hewn to celebrate a victory, possibly that of a Rhodian fleet about 2100 years ago. Now it is in the Louvre, on the landing of the Daru Staircase, which was designed and built to display the Victory
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