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Associate professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (Ices) of La Roche-sur-Yon. Last published work: “Pour Napoléon” (Ed. Perrin, 2021, 213 p., € 15).
It has been almost 150 years since the people of Rouen were used to seeing an equestrian statue of Napoleon I in front of their Town Hall, on what is now Place Charles-de-Gaulle.
But since July 2020, the monumental pedestal on which this work by sculptor Gabriel Vital-Dubray (1813-1892) dominated the premises has been orphaned.
The statue was indeed removed and entrusted for restoration to the specialists of the Coubertin foundry in Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse.
Fifteen months later, she would be ready to resume her place if the socialist mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, did not wish to replace her with the effigy of another figure, preferably female.
He also suggested that it be Gisèle Halimi.
As for Napoleon, the mayor of Rouen could easily see him centered on the island Lacroix, at the foot of the Corneille bridge.
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