STATUES - HITHER & DITHER
France
Barentin
Seine-Maritime
Haute-Normandie

Avenue Victor Hugo / Rue Hector Malot

Hector Malot

La Bouille 1830 - Fontenay-sous-Bois 1907
French writer; his most famous work is Sans famille (English: "Nobody's Boy", German: "Heimatlos", Dutch: "Alleen op de wereld") (1878)
(Wikipedia) 		Henri Chapu
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Barentin / Hector Malot   Barentin / Hector Malot

Description

Stone bust on a brick pedestal. The bust is copied after the one in La Bouille.

Information Sign

HECTOR
MALOT

par a. chapu

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Barentin - Musée dans la Rue

Barentin "City of Arts" has 320 sculptures scattered throughout the city in its "street museum": 112 statues and busts of famous sculptors in the public space, and a permanent exhibition in the Camille Claudel Room with 80 sculptures.

Initiator of the "street museum" is the lawyer and politician André Marie (Honfleur 1897 - Rouen 1974, Wikipedia), who was mayor of Barentin from 1945 to 1974 and minister of national education. The town continues his initiative under the leadership of Michel Bentot, Mayor since 1990, with the purchase, maintenance and restoration of the sculptures, paintings and monuments.

Barentin

Click here for a interactive map with the locations of the busts.

See also:
Barentin Cité des Arts, Patrimoine.

Sculptor

Clickable keywords:

Location N 49°32'53" E 0°57'13"

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Item Code: frhn061; Photograph: 3 June 2012
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