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L'Âme de la France
L'Âme de la France ("The Soul of France") is the name given by the French sculptor Carlo Sarrabezolles to three identical monumental statues that he executed in three different materials during the interwar period, the first in plaster in 1921, the second in stone in 1922, and the last in bronze in 1930. 3.2 metres tall, they represent a female warrior with naked breasts raising her arms toward the sky.
Overview.
Executed from the first of the three models, the newest
France grateful to her dead’", in this case the soldiers who fell during World War I, in which the people of Réunion participated, notably led by the aviator Roland Garros. Thus, the figure visually depicts the country’s gratitude toward the poilus through what the Mérimée Database of historic monuments calls a "secular allegory", and the statue can thus be used as a war memorial, as is the case on Réunion.
Nevertheless, the subject of "L'Âme de la France" has its own individual characteristics