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Cocherel
(Commune d'Hardencourt-Cocherel)
Eure
Haute-Normandie

Route des Moulins / Chemin du Gué Turbure

Les Méditations - Aristide Briand

Nantes 1862 - Paris 1932
French statesman, Prime Minister of France (11 terms between 1909 and 1929)
(Wikipedia)

Émile Guillaume
Ferdinand Barbedienne Fondeur (Paris)
1934

Cocherel / Les Méditations - Aristide Briand

Description

Bronze statue of Aristide Briand, sitting on a rock.

Inscription(s)

Signed: Emile Guillaume
f. barbedienne

Information Sign

LES MEDITATIONS
en souvenir
D'aristide BRIAND
les conseils-municipaux
de Pacy-sur-Eure et Hardencourt

Annotation

Briand 'discovered' Cocherel in 1908 and bought a house in the village. He was buried in Cocherel (Cne d'Houlbec-Cocherel - the river Eure divides the village of Cocherel in a part belonging to Houlbec and a part to Hardencourt). On the cemetery is a bronze portrait.
The identical statue is also in Ouistreham, where Briand spend his holidays.

Cocherel (Cne d'Hardencourt-Cocherel) / Les Méditations - Aristide Briand

Sculptor

Émile Oscar Guillaume (1867 - 1942), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Locatie (N 49°3'23" - E 1°19'59") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frhn055; Photograph: 29 August 2011
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