FRENCH MEMORIAL SCULPTURE

(Memorial Images © Nicholas Philpot)

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​Gaston Broquet, 1880-1947 Trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, & served 32 months as a stretcher-bearer at the Front in WW1. His wife was the daughter of sculptor Adolphe Itasse.


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​Jules Déchin, 1869 (Lille)-1947 Trained in Lille & at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris; spend 4 years in Rome on a scholarship from the city of his birth; & thereafter worked in France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, Russia & the USA.

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​Paul Maximilian Landowski, 1875-1961 The son of a Polish refugee, he grew up in Paris & was trained from 1895 at the École des Beaux Arts.  In 1900 he won the Prix de Rome, earning him 4 years of study there. In a career of over 55 years he produced many monuments in Paris & the surrounding area, & elsewhere abroad, also war memorials in France, Algeria & Morocco; & is perhaps best known for his Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, 1931.

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Maxime Réal del Sarte, 1888-1954. His father was a sculptor, & his mother a painter. Trained at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, from 1908. A devout Catholic & a Royalist, he was active in right-wing politics, once receiving a 6-month prison sentence. In WW1, he served as an Infantry Lieutenant on the Verdun front, being wounded at Les Éparges & losing his left fore-arm. In 1921, he received the Grand Prix des Beaux Arts, for a work started in 1914.  He continued with his political militancy, along with c 100 works of sculpture, including a statue of Marshal Joffre, & over 2 dozen war memorials.

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Albert Dominique Roze, b.1861(Amiens), d.1952 He first trained in the city of his birth, & between 1879-81 at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.  Two years were then spent in Italy; thereafter he served as Director of the École des Beaux Arts in Amiens from 1893-1911. After WW1 he played a prominent part in the selection of designs for war memorials, & himself was responsible for some 20 of them, mostly in the department of the Somme.
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​Félix-Alexandre Desruelles, 1865-1943                                       Click here for Images

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Some classic statues frequently found on war memorials throughout France

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