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    Lord Aberdeen. The monument takes the form of a severed column, or colonne brisée to use the French term, reached by a flight of steps. It was designed...
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    classical antiquity. Those buildings included a summer house (the "colonne brisée", or ruined column), in the form of the base of a shattered column from...
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