Monument Etienne Richaud

  • Historic site and monument
  • Historic patrimony
  • Sculpture
  • Town of Art & History
  • 19th C
Place de la Libération, L'Île, 13500 Martigues
Please note that the nearest station is more than
Monument inaugurated on July 2, 1899, dismantled in 1943 under the Vichy regime to be melted down and recovered overnight by the Richaud family. It was hidden in Mimet then returned to the Liberation and put back in place.
This sculpture homage to Etienne Richaud (1841-1889) is a bronze bust on a pedestal erected by public subscription. Etienne Richaud, son and grandson of a fisherman born at No. 7 rue Galinière in 1841, had brilliant studies and held high administrative positions.

On a very strong pedestal rests the base of a pyramidal stone column, truncated at its top to serve as a support for the bust. On one of the base faces of the column, a bronze newsboy in an unbalanced posture, written under the...

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Monument Etienne Richaud
Place de la Libération, L'Île, 13500 Martigues
Please note that the nearest station is more than
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