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Le Crotoy
Somme
Picardie

Rue Florentin Lefils

Les frères Caudron

Gaston & René Caudron
Favières 1882 - Lyon-Bron 1915 resp. Favières 1884-1959
aviation pioniers
(Wikipedia)

Désiré Fossé & Augustin Lesieux
1934/1954

Description

Marble sculpture showing dead Icarus fallen on the rocks.
On the front of the pedestal two portrait medallions and their airplane, and on the back a relief showing some fisherman on the beach of Le Crotoy looking at the airplane of the Caudron brothers.

Inscription(s)

GASTON CAUDRON
aviateur constructeur
chevalier de la legion d'honneur
mort pour la patrie
1882 - 1915

RENÉ CAUDRON
aviateur constructeur
commandeur de la legion d'honneur
collaborateur de son frère
1884 - 1959

The relief portraits are signed: Alesieux sculpt. The Icarus sculpture and the relief on the back is signed: Alesieux d'après fossé

Annotation

The original monument of Fossé was in bronze and was destroyed in World War II. In 1954 a new monument was erected of marble. The Icarus figure and the relief identical with the bronze monument, the portraits of the brothers Caudron was newly designed by Lesieux.

Sculptors

Désiré-Célestin Fossé (Allonville, Somme 1851 - ... 1923), French sculptor.
Augustin Lesieux (Sombrin 1877 - 1974), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Location (N 50°13'8" - E 1°37'44")

Item Code: frpi034; Photograph: 26 August 2011
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