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Trégastel
Côtes-d'Armor
Bretagne

Rue du Général de Gaulle
(Le Rocher du Souvenir)

Léon Durocher

né Léon Joseph Marie Düringer
Napoléonville (Pontivy) 1862 - Paris 1918
French writer, poet and singer
(Wikipedia)

Louis-Henri Nicot
1937

Description

Bronze plaque on a large rock.

Inscription(s)

1862 1918 23 oct. 23 oct.

LEON DUROCHER
poete et chansonnier
dir^teur du Fureteur Breton

Signed: louis h. nicot / 1937

Annotation

The plaque was originally meant for the Roche des Poètes in Ploumanac'h but was placed here on a rock near the chapel of Sainte-Anne de Trégastel, where Durocher had built a villa in 1900.

Sculptor

Louis-Henri Nicot (Rennes 1878-1944), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Locatie (N 48°49'38" - W 3°30'42") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frbr023; Photograph: 27 May 2012
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