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Monument de Molière

Molière stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Paris 1622 - id. 1673)
French playwright and actor
(Wikipedia)

Jean-Antoine Injalbert
1897

Description

Marble bust of Molière, with some sub-figures:

the maid Lucette from Molière's play Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, represents Comedy paying tribute to Molière,
a goat-foor satyr represents Satire,
masks of the actors Coquelin cadet (Alexandre Honoré Ernest Coquelin, Boulogne-sur-Mer 1848 - Suresnes 1909, Wikipedia) and Jeanne Ludwig (1867-1898) of the Comédie Française on the back of the pedestal.

Lucette

Satire

Coquelin cadet and Jeanne Ludwig

Inscription(s)

A MOLIÈRE
ses admirateurs

En .... molière
1630-1631? 1633-16..
Par souscription nationale
Sur l'initiative du Comite de Pezenas
Inaugure le 8 Aout 1897

Signed: A. Injalbert 1896

Sculptor

Jean-Antoine Injalbert ( Béziers 1845 - Paris 1933), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Patrimoine de France, Monument (monument commémoratif), de Molière à Pézenas (34).

Location (N 43°27'39" - E 3°25'32")

Item Code: frlr008; Photograph: 7 September 2011
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