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Ville de Paris
Ile-de-France

Place Georges Guillaumin (8e)

Honoré de Balzac

(Tours 1799 - Paris 1850)
French novelist and playwright
(Wikipedia)

Alexandre Falguière
1900

Description

Stone statue of Honoré de Balzac sitting on a chair.

Inscription(s)

HONORÉ de BALZAC

1799 - 1850

monument
érigé par les soins
de la
société des gens de lettres

Signed: A Falguière / 1900

Annotation

Falguière got the commission for this statue from the Société des gens de lettres, after they rejected the design by Auguste Rodin.

Sculptor

Alexandre Falguière (Toulouse 1831 - Paris 1900), French sculptor (his bust) (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Monument to Balzac.
Phidias-Sculptures de rue, Les statues de rue de Paris.

Locatie (N 48°52'28" - E 2°18'7") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frif023; Photograph: 25 May 2011
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