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Français : Sur la statue, la devise
Pour la patrie
les sciences
et la gloire
Sur le socle, l'inscription
L'école polytechnique
A la défense de Paris
1814
Sculpteur Corneille Theunissen, 1914
English: The statue in the courtyard of École polytechnique, France, commemorating the Polytechnique cadets' involvement in defending France against the invasion of the coalition in 1814.
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