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La Délivrance
La Délivrance is a 1914 bronze statue by the French sculptor (1867–1942). The statue was created as a celebration of the First Battle of the Marne, when the German army was stopped before capturing Paris in August 1914.
A 4.9m high example of work has been displayed at Henly's Corner, at the bottom of Regents Park Road at the southern edge of Finchley in north London, now in the London Borough of Barnet, since 1927. Another example has been located in the French city of
La Délivrance de Thésée
La Délivrance de Thésée ("The Deliverance of Theseus") is the final opera in a trilogy of "opéras minute", composed by the French composer Darius Milhaud in 1927 to a libretto by Henri Hoppenot. The first two works in the series are "L'Enlèvement d'Europe" (The Abduction of Europe) and "L'abandon d'Ariane" (The Abandonment of Ariadne), and the running time for the complete trilogy is approximated at 28 minutes. "La Délivrance" is the shortest of the three