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Rond-point de l'Ile Maurice

Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais

Saint-Malo 1699 - Paris 1753
French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company
(Wikipedia)

Auguste Dumont
J.M. Pathé
1859/1989

Saint-Malo / Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais

Description

Bronze statue of Mahé with in his left hand a map of ile de france

Inscription(s)

MAHE
DE
LA BOURDONNAIS
1699-1753

Signed: auguste DUMONT statuare / paris 1859
FONDERIE la PLAINE paris / j.m. pate ..ouleur st. malo 1989

Information Sign

Ce Monument replique de celui de
Port-Louis
a ete erige le 17 septembre 1989
Les Citoyens de l'Ile Maurice
En on fait don a la Ville Natale
du gouverneur general des Isles
de France et de Bourbon
Fondateur de la capitale
Grace a une souscription nationale
animee par le Comte de la Bourbonnais
Sous les auspices
de l'amicale Ile Maurice-France

Annotation

Unveiled 17 September 1989, it is a copy of the statue in Port-Louis from 1859.

Sculptor

Auguste (Augustin) Dumont (Paris 1801 - Paris 1884), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

e-Monumen.net, le patrimoine monumental français en France et à l'étranger.

Locatie (N 48°38'46" - W 2°1'25") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frbr040; Photograph: 28 May 2012
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