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Mausolée à Jean-Baptiste GodinMausoleum of Jean-Baptiste GodinEsquéhéries 1817 - Guise 1888French industrialist, writer and political theorist, and social innovator. A manufacturer of cast-iron stoves and influenced by Charles Fourier, he developed and built an industrial and residential community called the Familistère (Social Palace). (Wikipedia) |
Various sculptors
Maurice Denonvilliers (Paris) 1889/1922 |
Stone obelisk with on the front on a pedestal a bronze bust of Godin, surmounted by a relief of Immortality attached to the obelisk. On the other side of the monument is a bust of Marie Adèlie Moret, Godin's wife (a identical with the bust on the second copy of this bust is on the Familistère square).
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 L'Immortalité Immortality |
 L'ouvrier / The Worker |
 La mère / The Mother |
Just as the Godin statue, the bronze parts of this monument were debunked by the German Army during the First World War to be melted, then reconstituted by Félix Charpentier. The monument was inaugurated again on 12 September 17.
Jean-Baptiste André Godin and his second wife Marie Adèlie Moret are both buried in this mausoleum
Under the bust of J.-B.A. Godin:
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Under the bust of Marie Adèlie Moret:
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Le bien c'est ce qui est utile a la vie humaine servir la vie humaine c'est aimer et servir Dieu |
rien n'est bon et meritoire sans la mour de l'humanité la prosperité vous suivra tant que l'accord regnera parmi vous soyez justes envers tous vous servirez d'exemple. |
Principaux ecrits de J.B. A. GODIN — solutions sociales. Mutualite sociale. et association du capital et du travail. le Gouvernement. la Republique du travail. |
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