Among the most notable memorials in the Garden is the tomb of Markos Botsaris. He was buried with full military honors but his grave was desecrated by the victorious Ottomans. In the meantime, the French sculptor David d'Angers created a monument of a young girl trying to read the hero’s name. It is said that he was inspired by a girl he encountered on a visit to a Paris cemetery. He shipped the finished sculpture to Missolonghi in 1835, where it languished at a widow’s house; it was finally placed on the grave in 1838. A few years later some political opponents of Botsaris’ son desecrated the tomb; they scattered the bones and broke the face and the arm of the little girl. The copy we see today was made by Georgios Bonanos in 1915, and the cost was covered by the Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.