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Clermont-Ferrand
Puy-de-Dôme
Auvergne

Rue Saint-Hérem

Blaise Pascal

Clairmont (now: Clermont-Ferrand) 1623 - Paris 1662
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher
(Wikipedia)

Eugène Guillaume
Ferdinand Barbedienne Fondeur (Paris)
1880

Description

Bronze statue of Pascal, sitting in a chair.

Inscription(s)

BLAISE PASCAL
1623 - 1662

donnee par l'etat 1878
bardoux ministre des beaux arts
moinier maire
erigee en 1880
gaillard maire

Signed: gvillavme 1879
f. barbedienne Fondeur paris

Sculptor

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (Montbard 1822 - Rome 1905), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Location (N 45°46'49" - E 3°5'4")

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Item Code: frau019; Photograph: 8 September 2011
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