Aimé Millet was a noted French sculptor, who was born and died in Paris.

Millet was the son of miniaturist Frederick Millet (1796-1859) and uncle to Chicago

Chicago

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 architectural decorator Julian Louis Millet (1856-1923). He studied and made first in 1836 at the École des Beaux Arts with David d'Angers and Viollet-le-Duc, who was later to design the base of Millet's statue of Vercingetorix

Vercingetorix

Vercingetorix was the chieftain of the Arverni tribe, who united the Gauls in an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars....

 in Alesia

Alesia

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In 1840 Millet began to produce his early works, in 1859 received the Légion d'honneur

Légion d'honneur

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, and in February 1870 was appointed professor at the École des Arts décoratifs

École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs

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. He was a friend of sculptor Pierre Louis Rouillard

Pierre Louis Rouillard

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 and his students included Louis Majorelle

Louis Majorelle

Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle, usually known simply as Louis Majorelle, was a French decorator and furniture designer who manufactured his own designs, in the French tradition of the ébéniste...

, Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot

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, and François Pompon

François Pompon

François Pompon was a French sculptor and animalier.Born in Saulieu in Burgundy, he moved to Paris. Beginning in 1870 he studied under the noted animalier Pierre Louis Rouillard at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, and later worked as Auguste Rodin's assistant...

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Millet died in Paris on January 14, 1891, and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery

Montmartre Cemetery

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Selected works

• The monumental statue of Vercingetorix
  Vercingetorix
  Vercingetorix was the chieftain of the Arverni tribe, who united the Gauls in an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars....
  
  , ordered by Napoleon III, built on site in Alesia.
• Apollo, Poetry, and Music, on Paris Opéra
  Palais Garnier
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   roof, between 1860-1869
• François-René de Chateaubriand
  François-René de Chateaubriand
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  , bronze statue, Saint Malo, 1875
• Cassandre se met sous la protection de Pallas, Jardin des Tuileries, 1877
• South America, one of six cast iron allegories of the continents, built for the Exposition Universelle (1878)
  Exposition Universelle (1878)
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  , currently on the square of the Musée d'Orsay
  Musée d'Orsay
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• Phidias
  Phidias
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   at the Jardin du Luxembourg
  Jardin du Luxembourg
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  , Paris, 1887