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Place Duguesclin

Bertrand du Guesclin

Château de la Motte-Broons, near Dinan 1320 - Châteauneuf-de-Randon 1380
Breton knight and French military commander during the Hundred Years' War; Constable of France, 1370-1380
(Wikipedia)

Emmanuel Frémiet
Leblanc-Barbedienne (Paris)
1902

Description

Bronze equestrian statue.

Inscription(s)

bertrand
DU GUESCLIN
—
1314-1380

Signed: e. fremiet
leblanc-barbedienne / fondeur

Annotation

This equestrian statue replaced a monument by Molknecht, that was donated by the city of Dinan to the town of Broons, native of Du Guesclin.

Sculptor

Emmanuel Frémiet (Paris 1824 - 1910), French sculptor, produced in 1874 the first equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, erected in the Place des Pyramides, Paris; this he afterwards (1889) replaced with another version (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Topic Topos, Patrimoine des communes de France.
e-Monumen.net, le patrimoine monumental français en France et à l'étranger.
Kees van Tilburg, From Marcus Aurelius to Kim Jong-il: The story of equestrian statues throughout the ages (Amstelveen, 2017). – see also the Equestrian statue website.

Locatie (N 48°27'7" - W 2°2'39") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frbr063; Photograph: 28 May 2012
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