Commons:Valued image candidates/Angoulême Monument Carnot 2012.jpg
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Angoulême Monument Carnot 2012.jpg
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| Nominated by | JLPC (talk) on 2012-08-26 07:31 (UTC) |
| Scope | Nominated as the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Statue of Sadi Carnot (Angoulême) |
| Used in | Global usage |
| Reason | President Sadi Carnot was born in Limoges (1837) and assassinated in Lyon (1894). His family lived in Charente so, within two years, founds were raised by a public subscription in Angoulême and sculptor Raoul Verlet was chosen to design a monument in homage to the dead President. The monument was inaugurated in 1897, before an audience of 25,000 people. It still looks emphatically academic but, after 115 years, it's now « a part of the town patrimony », as Beatrice Rolin, Angoulême museum curator, said a few years ago when she noted that the basements of the statue were going to crumble. -- JLPC (talk) |
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