Constant Roux [SEP] place of death
Constant Roux
Constant Ambroise Roux known as Constant Roux, was born on 20 April 1865 in Marseille and died on 17 November 1942 in the same city. He is a French sculptor.
Biography.
Roux' parents ran a chemist shop and Roux started working at a young age for Achille Blanqui who was a furniture maker. Roux helped with the wood carving involved.
Roux studied at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Marseille, enrolling in 1879, and working under the tuition of Émile Aldebert, Marius
another niece, Zita Crucy, married Louis-Prudent's brother Constant, an architect too, who designed some of the hospitals of Loire-inférieure, notably "St. Jacques General Hospital" in Nantes, and the "place du Sanitat" in the same town. Justine and Zita were daughters to Louis Crucy (born 1756), Mathurin's brother. On the 4 October 1785, in the Saint Similien church in Nantes, Louis and Mathurin Crucy had themselves married sisters Le Roux, Françoise and Marie Françoise.
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