Gustave Michel
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Gustave Frederic Michel (1851-1924) was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 sculptor, according to Marina Warner "one of the most famous sculptors of the first decades of this (twentieth) century in France," although virtually unknown today.

Work includes:
  • Monument commemorating the French Revolution, Châtellerault
    Châtellerault
    Châtellerault is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in France.It is located to the north of Poitou, and the residents are called Châtelleraudais.-Geography:...

     (Vienna), 1890


  • two figural groups on the supports of Pont de Bir-Hakeim
    Pont de Bir-Hakeim
    The pont de Bir-Hakeim, formerly the pont de Passy, is a bridge that crosses the Seine River in Paris, France. It connects the city's 15th and 16th arrondissements, and passes through the île aux Cygnes....

     in Paris, circa 1900
  • Monument to Jules Ferry and Autumn, the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, 1910
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