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Camille Desmoulins

Guise 1760 - Paris 1794
journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution
(Wikipedia)

Amédée Doublemard & Félix Charpentier
1889/1923/1949

Description

Bronze statue of Desmoulins, holding up his hat in one hand and a branch in the other. Depicted is the occasion when Desmoulins harangued a crowd in Paris' Palais Royale. The scene is repeated in one of the bas-reliefs on the side of the pedestal.

Guise - Camille Desmoulins
Au Palais Royal
At the royal palace

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(A couple with a child in front of a man sitting on a table and a female servant)

Originally the sculpture had been by Doublemard but this had to be replaced by Charpentier's work. Doublemard's plaster model had been presented to the Paris Salon in 1882 and a bronze made from it. This seems to have been commandeered by the German army during the 1914-1918 war and in 1923 Carpentier was commissioned to create a bronze based on Doublemard's original work. The Germans took the bronze work away again during the occupation 1940-1944 and Charpentier's work was eventually reworked and inaugurated on 14 July 1949.

Inscription(s)

A
Camille Desmoulins
1760-1794
ses
concitoyens

Signature

(statue) doublemard, reconstitue par F. Charpentier
durenne & val d'osne paris
(reliefs) doublemard 1889

Sculptors

Félix Charpentier (Bollène, Vaucluse 1858 - Paris 1924), French sculptor.
Amédée Doublemard (Flavigny-le-Grand-et-Beaurain 1826 - Paris 1900), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

e-Monumen.net, Monumen.

Location (N 49°53'59" - E 3°37'38")

Item Code: frpi071; Photograph: 15 October 2017
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