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Jean de Rochambeau

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Vendôme 1725 - Thoré-la-Rochette 1807
French nobleman and soldier who participated in the American Revolutionary War
(Wikipedia)

Fernand Hamar
Blanchet
1900/1974

Description

Bronze statue.

Inscription(s)

ROCHAMBEAU

cette nouvelle statue, identique à celle
qui fut erigée en 1900, à été offerte
a la ville de vendôme
par la societe des cincinnati
le 5 juin 1974

1725

namur · lavvfeld
—
maestricht
—
mahon · cassel
—
regenstein
—
crevelt · clostercamp
—
york-town
—

1900

jean-baptiste donatien de vimeur
marquis de rochambeau
marechal de france
1725-1807
monument edifie a l'aide d'une souscription
franco-americaine
philadelphie

1807

commandant en chef
de l'armee francaise en
amerique
prit york-town 1781
et assura l'intependance des
etats-unis
—

Signed: f.hamar / 1933
blanchet - fondeur

Annotation

The original statue was destroyed in 1942. The new statue could be cast from a mold, made by an art teacher of the Lycée Ronsard before 1939.
In Washington (Park Lafayette) is an identical statue, unveiled in 1902.

Sculptor

J. J. Fernand Hamar (Vendôme 1869 - 1943), French sculptor.

Locatie (N 47°47'29" - E 1°4'3") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frce015; Photograph: 29 August 2011
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