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• Allégories des colonies d'Asie et des colonies d'Afrique, Marseille
  Deux groupes situés au bas de l'escalier monumental de la gare Saint-Charles à Marseille et représentant les colonies d'Asie et les colonies d'Afrique. Chaque groupe est construit autour d'une figure féminine à la pose alanguie avec un enfant couché à ses pieds et un ou une adolescent-e assis-e face à elle et lui présentant une corbeille de fruits. Colonies d'Asie : s'y ajoutent un lion de style khmer, un vase représentant des danseuses (apsaras) et une banquette avec le motif du serpent à 7 têtes. Colonies d'Afrique : s'y ajoutent, une vase, une défense d'ivoire, un figuier de barbarie, deux singes (une mère et son petit), un tronc de palmier et une palme, un crâne de bélier.
• Bust of Aimé Césaire, Sarcelles
• Bust of an enslaved man, Pau
  L'homme est représenté debout, les mains attachées dans le dos, la tête basculée en arrière et les yeux clos.
• Bust of Christopher Columbus, Rouen
• Bust of Victor Schoelcher, Houilles
• Bust of Charles de Gaulle, Haumont
• Buste de Charles de Gaulle, Vert-Pré, Le Robert
  Buste de Charles de Gaulle, Vert-Pré, Le Robert
• Buste de Gandhi, Fort-de-France
• Bust of Victor Schœlcher, Basse-Terre
• Equestrian statue of Napoléon Bonaparte, La Roche-sur-Yon
  The statue depicts Napoleon I on horseback, in frock coat and hat, pointing with his right hand to the site where he decided to develop the town.
• Equestrian statue of Napoléon Bonaparte, Rouen
  The statue depicts Napoleon Bonaparte in military dress on a prancing horse.
• Equestrian statue of Redvers Buller, Exeter
  Equestrian statue of General Sir Redvers Buller and his horse "Biffen", sculpted by Adrian Jones. The statue was commissioned by the Buller Memorial Committee (established in Exeter in October 1901 after Buller's controversial dismissal from the British Army) and was unveiled in the city in 1905. The statue stands at the junction of Hele Road and New North Road, in between Exeter College and Bury Meadow Park. The statue and its plinth make direct references to Buller's colonial career. The inclusion of Buller's horse Biffen and the line on the plinth, "HE SAVED NATAL", are references to Buller's eventual victory at the relief of Ladysmith on March 1st, 1900 during the Second Boer War of 1899-1902. Other inscriptions on the plinth note the locations where Buller was involved in colonial conflicts, including India, China, Canada, Ashanti (Ghana), Sudan and South Africa. The statue of Buller is unusual in that it is a rare case of an equestrian statue depicting a military general located outside of London. Most statues of this type (which typically depicted either a monarch or a military figure) were usually installed in the metropole at the time, and the statue of Stapleton Cotton in Cheshire is probably the closest artistic counterpart to Buller's statue. Jones had considerable experience in sculpting equestrian statues beforehand, producing works such as Duncan's Horses in 1892 and Persimmon in 1895.
• Maroon Memorial, Sainte-Anne
  The memorial features the wall of a mill, a symbol of the oppressive plantation system, from which emerges a Marron with his leg and ears cut off as a sign of attempted resistance and escape, and on which several symbols of slavery and marronnage are displayed: chains referring to deprivation of freedom; two Chaltounés, torches, used for nocturnal travel; a lambi conch shell, which enabled communication with other slaves; a Ka, drum, which accompanied slaves in their songs and enabled them to perpetuate African music and was a decisive means of communication.
• Monument to Ernest Deproge
  Bust of Ernest Deproge, in frock coat and with a full beard, one of the symbols worn by French Republicans in the late 19th century.
• Monument to Surcouf
  Standing in privateer costume, sword in left hand, Surcouf points to the horizon with his right hand.
• Monument to Victor Schœlcher, Cayenne
  The monument depicts Victor Schœlcher raising his right arm to the sky, “showing, on the horizon, incipient liberty” (inauguration speech by the Governor of French Guiana) and wrapping his left arm, in a paternalistic gesture, around the shoulders of a young black man dressed in a loincloth, wearing broken chains on his feet. With his hand over his heart, the young man looks gratefully at Schœlcher.
• Monument to Villebois-Mareuil
  The monument consists of a base with bas-reliefs and inscriptions, and a statue. The latter depicts Villebois-Mareuil, in colonel's uniform, standing erect, receiving a kiss from a female allegory carrying a moving flag in one hand and supporting it with the other. The movement of the figures represents the moment of the militiaman's death.
• Monument to Doctor Hamy
  The monument in honor of Doctor Hamy consists of a pedestal on which a bronze bust of Ernest Hamy is mounted, and in front of which an allegorical female figure in a long, full dress, holding a skull in her left hand and a measuring instrument in her right. Stylized ethnographic types are engraved on three sides of the pedestal: a Breton woman on the right, a North American First Nations man and an Asian man at the back, and a South American man on the left.
• Monument to Marshal Bugeaud, Périgueux
  The monument depicts Marshal Bugeaud standing bareheaded in military garb, his right hand resting on his heart and his left hand holding a sabre. Behind him, at his feet, is a trophy made up of flags representing the territories over which he established French rule in Algeria.
• Monument Christophe Colomb, Guadeloupe
  Buste de Christophe Colomb placé sur une colonne et un socle sur lequel sont fixées deux plaques gravées.
• Monument to Abdelkader, Amboise
  The monument belongs to Michel Audiard's “Passages” series of portraits cut from sheets of Corten steel. The portrait of Abd el Kader is based on one taken in 1851 by Gustave le Gray, depicting him in the frame of a stone doorway, his cloak in motion behind him, gazing to his right.
• Monument to général Faidherbe, Lille
  The monument features an equestrian statue of General Faidherbe in parade dress, holding a sabre in his hand. At his feet, an allegory of the city of Lille, a woman wearing crown, cuirass and long coat, looks at him with admiration and indicates with her left hand to an allegory of History the hero's exploits to be recorded in a book placed on her lap. At the back of the monument, a second female allegory, representing the cities of the North, hands Faidherbe a laurel wreath. On the sides of the pedestal, two bas-reliefs depict the Battle of Pont-Noyelles (December 24, 1870) on the right, and the Battle of Bapaume (January 3, 1871) on the left.
• Monument to Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Paris
  The monument is a 12-metre-long wall, tiered into three steps rising from left to right to a height of 4.30 metres. To the left: a bas-relief depicts a line of 11 marchers, with the Europeans at the head of the line. The mission doctor is seated on a low stool, treating a soldier. A European waits beside him, keeping an eye on the column. The itinerary, marked with place names, is engraved above the column. Plants appear between the figures. Right: the statue of Marchand is detached from the monument, raised and oversized in relation to the others. Bareheaded, arms folded, he stands facing the viewer, guarding the flagpole and shield, both in bronze. This statue was damaged and removed in 1983. The names of all the Europeans and the number of African soldiers are engraved on the shield.
• Monument to Joseph-Marcel Germain, Brive-la-Gaillarde
  Le buste de Germain est placée sur une colonne de pierre. Devant lui, un tirailleur africain est au garde à vous, il tient à deux mains son fusil dont la crosse est posée par terre. A droite, une branche de laurier recouverte par un bouclier avec le blason de la ville de Brive.
• Monument to Solitude and enslaved people, Bagneux
• Monument to Victor Schœlcher, Fort-de-France
  Victor Schœlcher, wearing a frock coat, wraps his arm around a child dressed only in a loincloth, symbolizing an emancipated young enslaved person, who, with his right hand over his heart, brings his left hand to his mouth and looks at him with gratitude. Victor Schœlcher, towering over the child, shows him the path to freedom with his left hand.
• Monument Victor Schœlcher, Schœlcher
  The statue, created by Martinican sculptor Marie-Thérèse Lung Fou (1909-1981), depicts abolitionist Victor Schœlcher standing in full regalia. The refined, sober work of art deco inspiration honors the memory of the abolitionist politician with dignity. The artist breaks with the paternalistic, colonial vision of older monuments, notably those in Fort-de-France and Cayenne. A plaque on the pedestal recalls the decree of the Provisional Government of March 4, 1848: “No French land shall bear slaves any longer. Victor Schœlcher 1804-1893”.
• Statue of Charles de Gaulle, Pavillons-sous-Bois
  Charles de Gaulle is shown in military garb, standing and moving, arms at his sides.
• Statue of the Abolition of Slavery
  The statue is modelled on the Délivrance statue designed in 1914 by sculptor Emile Guillaume and chosen by the Nantes municipality in 1927 to complement the war memorial installed in 1918. The project takes this statue, arms raised to the sky to signify deliverance, and encircles it in chains symbolizing slavery, from which the enslaved person frees himself.
• Statue of Winston Churchill, Paris
• Statue of Winston Churchill, Paris
  Churchill, wearing a military coat and cap, walks forward leaning on a cane. The statue was directly inspired by a photograph of the November 11, 1944 parade on the Champs Elysées, led by Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill. https://histoire-image.org/etudes/defile-11-novembre-1944-champs-elysees
• Statue of Charles de Gaulle, Metz
  Charles de Gaulle is shown in motion, palms and eyes facing forward.
• Statue of Charles Leclerc, Pontoise
• Statue of Charles Mangin, Paris
• Statue of Edward Colston
  The almost hunched, contemplative figure represents Colston in his maturity. For a likeness, the sculptor may have turned to Jonathan Richardson’s portrait of 1702, a version of which hangs in the Council House. The reclining figure by Rysbrack on Colston’s tomb in All Saints, Corn Street, may also have been useful. The monument shows a younger, more vigorous man, although Rysbrack may well have used the same source. Cassidy’s statue depicts Colston in early eighteenth century clothes […] Three of the side reliefs show apocryphal or symbolic scenes from Colston’s life. One shows Colston distributing alms in the street; another depicts mythical seahorses and tritons pulling an anchor; the third depicts the legend […] of a dolphin plugging a leak in one of Colston’s ships. […] It was this ‘incident’ that is said to have caused Colston to adopt the dolphin as his emblem. Stylised dolphins, with writhing tails and looking more like animated catfish, are at each corner of the pedestal. The fourth panel bears an inscription and the sculptor’s name. (Merritt & Greenacre 2011: 41)
• Statue of François Césaire de Mahy, Saint-Pierre de la Réunion
• Statue of François Mahé de la Bourdonnais, Saint-Denis de la Réunion
• Statue of Hubert Lyautey, Paris
  Hubert Lyautey se tient debout, le regard fixé au loin. Il est tête nue, en uniforme et avec une longue cape militaire, arborant toutes ses décorations, il tient son épée de la main gauche la pointe vers le bas et son képi dans la main droite.
• Statue of Jean-Baptiste Léon Olry, Nouméa
  Olry is depicted standing in military garb, right arm raised and sword at side. The base features ornamental Greek Revival palms and a bas-relief depicting the surrender of the Kanaks after the 1878 uprising.
• Statue of Joseph Gallieni, Paris
• Statue of Joséphine de Beauharnais, Fort-de-France
  Statue of Josephine standing in white marble.
• Statue of Modeste Testas Al Pouessi
  The statue depicts a woman freed from slavery, standing at human height, in a city involved in the slave trade.
• Statue of Paul Bert, Auxerre
  Paul Bert is standing, wearing a city suit rather than a doctor's gown, bareheaded. A paper in his left hand, he is making a speech his right hand outstretched towards his listeners.
• Statue of Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, Fort-de-France
  Debout, épée au côté, d'Esnambuc scrute l'horizon la main gauche en visière au-dessus de sa tête. A ses pieds, une ancre. Sur le piédestal en béton peint en blanc : une caravelle en bronze et deux plaques de granit rose sur lesquelles sont gravées les inscriptions.
• Statue of Thomas Alexandre Dumas, Paris
• Statue of Thomas Jefferson, Paris
  Standing with his left hand on his hip, Jefferson appears to be observing and seeking inspiration, before resuming the layout of his Monticello home. The statue faces the Hôtel de Salm, which served as a model for Monticello
• Statue of Toussaint Louverture, Massy
• Statue of Vélo, Pointe-à-Pitre
  Assis dans la posture du tambouyé, jouant sur un tambour droit (contrairement à l’habitude qui consistait à jouer sur un tambour penché), Marcel Lollia est représenté torse nu, portant un pantalon large évoquant la frugalité qui caractérise surtout la fin de sa vie.
• Statue of Victor Hugo, Besançon
  In a three-piece suit, Victor Hugo is standing one hand in his pocket, the other holding a pocket watch that he is looking at. The bronze is polychrome, blue jacket, white shirt, white beard and hair, bronze-colored skin.