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(Ancien Hôtel de Ville)

Jacques Guillaume Thouret

Pont-l'Évêque 1746 - Paris 1794
French Girondin revolutionary, lawyer, president of the National Constituent Assembly and victim of the guillotine
(Wikipedia)

Jean-Marc de Pas
1989

Description

Bronze bust in a niche in the façade. The niche is flanked by two oval text shields with angels.

Inscription(s)

THOURET
jacques guillaume
DEPUTE
de la ville de rouen
aux etats generaux
de 1789

nous fumes
nous sommes
et nous resterons fideles
a legalite, a la liberte
a la republique
14 brumaire an ii

Annotation

The original bust was placed in 1889 and was destroyed during World War II.

Sculptor

Jean-Marc de Pas (1962), French sculptor in Bois-Guilbert (Website).

Sources & Information

Le Bozec, Chr., et E. Wauters (ed.), Pour la Révolution française: en hommage à Claude Mazaric (Rouen 1998), p. 455 (Google books).

Locatie (N 49°26'29" - E 1°5'30") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frhn027; Photograph: 28 August 2011
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