List of Statues - France

France

  • The Vimy Memorial, honouring Canada's role there in the First World War
  • The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin in Calais
  • The Thinker by Auguste Rodin in Paris
  • The Lion of Belfort by Frédéric Bartholdi in Belfort
  • Venus de Milo, ancient Greek statue in the Louvre
  • Winged Victory of Samothrace, ancient Greek statue also in the Louvre
  • The Statue of Liberty by Frédéric Bartholdi on the Île aux Cygnes in Paris
  • Jeanne d'Arc in the Rue de Rivoli by Emmanuel Frémiet.
  • Jeanne d'Arc in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur by Hippolyte Lefèbvre, 1927.
  • King Louis IX in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur by Hippolyte Lefèbvre, 1927.
  • Ferdinand Foch near the Trocadéro.
  • Joseph Joffre in front of École Militaire.
  • Charlemagne (Charlemagne et ses Leudes) by Charles and Louis Rochet in front of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, 1882.
  • Albert I of Belgium near the Place de la Concorde.
  • King Henri IV by François-Frédéric Lemot on the Pont Neuf.
  • Etienne Marcel by Antonin Idrac near the Hôtel de Ville.
  • Marble equestrian statue of King Louis XIII at Place des Vosges. Begun in 1816 by Louis Dupaty, completed in 1821 by Jean-Pierre Cortot.
  • General Lafayette at Cours la Reine by Paul Wayland Bartlett.
  • King Louis XIV in front of Louvre Pyramid.
  • King Louis XIV by François Joseph Bosio at the Place des Victoires, 1822.
  • José de San Martín in the Parc Montsouris.
  • King Edward VII by Paul Landowski at Place Edouard VII.
  • Napoléon Bonaparte at Champs-Élysées.

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