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Camille DesmoulinsGuise 1760 - Paris 1794journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution (Wikipedia) |
Amédée Doublemard & Félix Charpentier
1889/1923/1949 |
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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.
A Camille Desmoulins 1760-1794 ses concitoyens |
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