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Ambérieu-en-Bugey
Ain
Rhône-Alpes

Rue Alexandre Bérard / Rue Aguétant

Alexandre Bérard

Lyon 1859 - Paris 1923
French lawyer and politician
(Wikipedia)

Alphonse Muscat
1959 (1929)

Description

Bust on a stone pedestal.

In 1929 a monument was ereced, composed of a bronze bust on a stone stele at the foot of which a feminine allegory - called the Postière - tends a bouquet of flowers. The bust was melted in 1932 under the Vichy regime. Only the female statue remained. The stele was empty until April 1959, when a new bust was installed. In June 2011, the Postière was stolen. The bust is then reinstalled on a new, more modest base.

Inscription(s)

Alexandre BERARD
1859-1923
—
Conseiller Général
du
canton d'Ambérieu
Vice Président du Sénat

Sculptor

Alphonse Muscat (Genève or Lagnieu, Ain 1872 - 1944), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

e-Monumen.net, Monumen.

Locatie (N 45°57'43" - E 5°21'24") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra299; Photograph: 17 August 2018
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