Statues - Hither & Thither

France

Saint-Michel-de-Lanès
Aude
Languedoc-Roussillon

Rue du Pont de l'Hers
(Jardin de la Mairie)

Monument aux morts de 1914-18/1870-71

War Memorial 1914-18/1870-71

Etienne Camus
Edmond Guichard et Cie (Castelnaudary)
date?

Saint-Michel-de-Lanès / Monument aux morts de 1914-18/1870-71

Description

Cast iron statue of a soldier.

Inscription(s)

1914-1918
la commune de
st. michel de lanés
à ses morts glorieux

list of names

1870-1871
enfants de
st. michel de lanés
morts pour la patrie

list of names

Later added:

1939-1945
enfants de st michel de lanès
morts pour la patrie

2 names

Signed: (statue) e. camus / statuaire / toulouse (except for the name unreadable, addition from an other monument).
(pedestal) H oechslin / beziers

Sculptor

Etienne Camus (1867-...), of Toulouse, designed a statue of a soldier (Le poilu) which was made by, among others, the Fonderies de Tusey, the Fonderies Edmond Guichard of Castelnaudary and distributed by Hector Jacomet de Villedieu (Vaucluse), and is therefore found on hundreds of monuments.

Location N 43°19'29" E 1°45'22"

Item Code: frlr003; Photograph: 2 September 2011
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