Parent Category: Statues Paris

Statue of man in coat next to the statue of 'The Thinker' in the metro station Varenne.

Auguste Rodin created the statue of Balzac from 1891 - 1898. It is said then when he presented his statue and it wasn't received favourably, he insisted in keeping his work.

The statues are made out of fibreglass, the original is at the musée Rodin, for which Varenne is the metro station.

Parent Category: Statues Paris

Marble statue of injured person leaning on another in Jardin des Tuileries.

Le Bon Samaritain (The Good Samaritain) is by François-Léon Sicard (1862 - 1934). He depicts the biblical story of a traveller who needed help, but everybody was walking by as he wore no clothes and no one was coming to his assistance. Finally a Samaritain came to his aide. Samaritains were looked down on, poor themselves. In his statue you can see the effort needed by the Samaritain to support the injured and naked victim.

Sicard finished his sculpture in 1896. 

Parent Category: Statues Paris

Auguste Dumont was commissioned to create a statue of Blanche of Castille as part of the Queens and influential women series. He finished the 2.35m high piece in 1848. The marble statue of Blanche de Castille stands in Jardin du Luxembourg.

Blanche de Castille (1188 - 1252), Queen of France, was the wife of Louis VIII and the mother in law of Marguerite de Provence.

Blanche de Castille stands with a veil covering her hair, and a crown on top.

In her right hand she holds a small staff. With her left hand she gathers some of her gown in front her.

Parent Category: Statues Paris

The stone figure of Berlin is above the fourth plinth from the right outside Gare du Nord.

The figure of Berlin by Jean-Joseph Perraud (1865) is one of the eight larger statues on the cornice line of Gare du Nord, representing international destinations reached from Paris by this railway (at that time) as well as Paris.

They are from left to right:
Frankfurt
Amsterdam
Warsaw
Brussels
Paris
Berlin
Cologne
London
Vienna

Berlin leans with her right hand on a large shield with the city's emblem. She wears a crown and a long gown draped over her left shoulder. Her left wrist is pushed against her waist.

Parent Category: Statues Paris

The stone figure of Bruxelles is above third plinth from left outside Gare du Nord.

The figure of Brussels by François Jouffroy (1865) is one of the eight larger statues on the cornice line of Gare du Nord, representing international destinations reached from Paris by this railway (at that time) as well as Paris.

They are from left to right:
Frankfurt
Amsterdam
Warsaw - also by François Jouffroy
Brussels
Paris
Berlin
Cologne
London
Vienna

Bruxelles wears a gown draped over her right shoulder and a crown. She leans on a large shield with a lion.