Jean Turcan studied at the Paris cole des Beaux-Arts until his studies were derailed by the Franco-Prussian War, a conflict between the French Empire and the German states of the North German Confederation.
Jean Turcan (Arles, 13 September 1846  Arles, 3 January 1895) was a French sculptor who specialized particularly in public figures. Having been given a scholarship by the city of Marseille, he went to study under Antoine Bontoux at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris until his studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire (and later, the Third French Republic) and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. The Second French Empire (French: Second Empire), officially the French Empire (French: Empire francais), was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France. 
