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Charles Mathieu

Anzin 1798 - ?
Mayor of Lourches, directeur of the Compagnie des mines de Douchy.

Corneille Theunissen
1901 (reconstruction)

Description

Bronze statue of Charles Mathieu holding a notebook. The pedestal is shaped as a corridor in a mine with logs at the corners and the top. On the sides of the pedestal is a relief of surveying instruments (right) and mining instruments (left). On the front is his name, and before the pedestal stand two stone statues of a young miner pointing to Mathieu's name to a sitting young woman.

Lourches - Charles Mathie

The monument was destroyed during World War I and reconstructed afterwards.

Inscription(s)

charles
MATHIEU

charles
MATHIEU
Chevalier
de
La Légion d'Honneur
Né a Anzin en 1798
Maire de Lourches
Fondateur
des Mines de Douchy
en 1832
des Mines de Courrieres
en 1849
creusé le premier puits
du Bassin du Pas-de-Calais
et rend hommage au zèle
des Mineurs
Daubresse · Bia · Pelabon · p Bertiaux
p.j. Bertiaux · a. Ledent Stievenard
c. Blaise · e. Trognon · l. Blanchard
c. Heraut · Brunet · l. Degand · c^l Botte
c^t Botte · Delaporte · Delporte

Sculptor

Corneille Henri Theunissen (Anzin, Nord, 1863 - Paris 1918), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

e-Monumen.net, Monumen.
Wikipedia, Monument à Charles Mathieu.
Wikipedia, Liste des monuments historiques du bassin minier du Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
Ministere de culture, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel.

Locatie (N 50°18'53" - E 3°21'12") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frnp106; Photograph: 17 October 2017
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