The Lion Monument or the Lion of Lucerne, is a
sculpture in Lucerne,
Switzerland,
designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas
Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French
Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris, France. Mark Twain
praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as "the most
mournful and moving piece of stone in the world. Source
