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Nord - Pas-de-Calais

Place de l'Abbé Bonpain

Abbé René Bonpain

Dunkerque 1908 - Bondues 1943
French resistance fighter and clergyman
(Wikipedia)

Maurice Ringot
1949

Description

Half-length statue of Abbé Bonpain with two children.

Inscription(s)

Bien Volontiers je me depenserai
je depenserai et moi-meme tout
entier pour vos ames

A Monsieur l'Abbé
René BONPAIN
Né a Dunkerque
le 15 Octobre 1980
Vicaire a Rosendaël
le 15 Juillet 1932
Fusillé
par les Allemands
le 30 Mars 1943
avec M Jules LANERY
et M Louis HERBEAUX

Signature

MRingot ?-?-1949

Sculptor

Maurice Ringot (Bergues 1880 - Malo-les-Bains [now Dunkerque] 1951), French sculptor, best known for his war memorials (Wikipedia).

Locatie (N 51°2'30" - E 2°24'22") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frnp036; Photograph: 30 July 2015
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