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Bronze statue of woman embracing herself at Jardin des Tuileries.
Eve is one of a group of three sculptures by Auguste Rodin at the terraces of the Orangerie in Jardin des Tuileries.
He created Eve in 1881, showing her as a woman having given into temptation.
She holds herself, at the same time pushing away something with one of her hands.
Her right leg stands on the ground, her left foot leans against a rock.
She stands next to L'Ombre.
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The Effort is a statue of a man pressing against a wall in Jardin du Luxembourg.
The lead statue by Pierre Roche is from the year 1902.
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Eve the German is one of 21 statues created by Rachid Khimoune under the concept of Les Enfants du Monde (Children of the World). The statues have been installed in Parc de Bercy in 2001. The statues are made from re-used industrial metal items with different textures welded together.
She is a bronze statue of a girl with a flat hat made froom a manhole cover and hair braided in form of a circle on her ears, thereby repeating the pattern. She looks slightly ahead of herself to the ground. Her eyes and mount are open. Her arms are held behind her back.
The statue has been coloured in yellow and purple-blue.
Eve wears a collared long dress.
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Stone bust of Edouard Branly in Jardin du Luxembourg
The bust was created in 1962 by Charles Sarrabezoles in honnor of Edouard Branly, the inventor of radio conductors.
Par sa decouverte en 1890 des radio conducteurs BRANLY réalisait pour la première fois au monde la commande distance sans fil decouverte qui a conduit la télégraphie et la télémecanique sans fil. 1844 - 1940
With his discovery of radio conductors in 1890, Branly achieved a world first in wireless communication. The discovery led to telegraphy and remote control.