Victor Noir, born Yvan Salmon, was a French journalist during the reign of Napoleon the Third, emperor of the French. Noir was then an ardent Republican, which led to his death in 1870. Following a scalding attack on the Bonaparte name in a Corsican newspaper, a cousin of Napoleon III had one of his letter published in which he fustigated Republicans right back. Mean words were used, the letter ended with “come at me bro”. Several prominent persons of the newspaper business felt personally attacked by that, including Paschal Grousset, the Corsican-born editor of the Marseillaise Republican newspaper. Grousset sent our protagonist Victor Noir and an associate to immediately challenge the Bonaparte prince to a duel. As the official story goes, the prince called Noir a tool, Noir slapped him, and the prince shot Noir with a revolver. After the republic was restored in France, Victor Noir became a minor hero for standing up to the establishment, by getting killed because his boss had been insulted. His body was transfered to the Pere Lachaise cemetary, were a bronze gisant was sculpted for him, featuring a large meaty dick because reasons. This led to many superstitious people saying that if a woman kisses the statue, rubs its crotch and leave a flower in its hat, she will get a kid/great sex/a husband, possibly not in that order. Attempts to fence in the statue have all failed so far.
Never let rational thought stand in the way of a cool ritual. Anyone who is against this is simply jealous,
Édouard Detaille (1848–1912)-Officer of the imperial Guard, Second Empire.Date 1911
The Cent-gardes Squadron, also called Cent Gardes à Cheval, was an elite cavalry squadron of the Second French Empire primarily responsible for protecting the person of the Emperor Napoleon III, as well as providing security within the Tuileries Palace.
