sentences:  This proved an unpopular option and so instead he planned the construction of a huge, bronze statue of an imperial elephant.The project was delayed, eventually indefinitely, and all that was constructed was a large plaster version of the bronze statue, which stood on the former site of the Bastille between 1814 and 1846, when the decaying structure was finally removed.After the restoration of the French Bourbon monarchy in 1815, the Bastille became an underground symbol for Republicans.