Sunday: June 6

Statues and scuptures

Paris is filled with really great works of art; it has some of the best museums in the world. And in the churches, you can find wonderful painting and sculptures. But in putlic spaces, like parks and squares, yuu will see statues and sculputres put there for your enjoyment. There are hundreds and hundreds of them; way too many to chronicle here. but below is a sampling of some of the statues and sculptures I have noticed and took a picture of. I hope you enjoy.

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   Diderot

   Louis XIII

      Marianne - Symbol of the Republic

   Not sure...no placque or annotation

   A lion in the middle of the traffic circle

   Condorcet

      Thomas Jefferson

   Simon Bolivar

   Churchill

   De Gaulle

   Aoollinaire

   Outside of Saint-Eustache

   Lamarck - founder of the theory of evolution

   The painter at Saint-Georges

   Albert the First of Belgium

      Benjamin Franklin

   Sculpture at Place Trocadero

   George Washington

   de Saint-Pierre

   Sculpture at Pont Tournelle

      Honore de Balzac

   Samuel Champlain & Jacques Cartier

   Canada

      Henri IV

      Placque and flowers commemorating Henri IV assination