The Prime Minister launched an unexpected appeal to the Senate last week to return to the monumental statuary in public places. Not only, as President Macron had just said, "we will not unbolt the statues" , but Edouard Philippe expressed the wish that others be created. He had the idea, to begin with, of restoring in Paris a statue of General Dumas, in the place where was that which was melted during the Occupation, on the place of General-Catroux - where the stone statues of 'Alexandre Dumas father and Alexandre Dumas fils await the return of the bronze ancestor.
Since 2009, a monument made up of broken chains has commemorated the liberation of slaves in this place: it would be close to the silhouette of the hero of the Revolution, born in what was then Saint-Domingue, son of Marie-Cessette Dumas, freed slave of African origin.
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To understand what sculpture in public places was, the Bourdelle Museum in Paris is the ideal place.
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