Selected Works
- La Parisienne, Paris, Exposition Universelle (1900)
- Victimes des révolutions, Avenue Gambetta, Paris; designed 1900, built 1909
- Borne du Front, many locations; between 1921–1927
- The monument commemorating those black soldiers from Africa who had served France in the Great War- “ Aux héros de l’Armée noire”. Two identical bronze statues were made. One was erected in Bamako in West Africa in what was then the French Sudan but is now Mali and the other in Reims chosen especially as Senegalese troops had played a major role in her defence from May to July 1918. Moreau-Vauthier’s work involved four black soldiers grouped around a white officer, all defending the national flag. The bronze sculpture stood on a granite pedestal and on the four sides of this pedestal the names were inscribed of those battles in which black troops had fought-YSER/ARRAS/DARDANELLES/SOMME/VERDUN/ALSACE/CHEMIN DES DAMES/CHAMPAGNE/REIMS/CHATEAU-THIERRY/AISNE/ORIENT/MAROC/CAMEROUN-TOGO. The Reims monument was destroyed by the Germans during their occupation of Reims during the 1939-1945 war;its sentiments in honouring negroes being anathema to the Nazi code. The monument also carried the inscription « Aux héros de l’Armée noire » : « en témoignage de reconnaissance envers les Enfants d’adoption de la France, morts en combattant pour la Liberté et la Civilisation » The monument in Reims was replaced after the Second World War and a new memorial can now be seen.
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