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