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    François Rude (4 January 1784 – 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor, best known for the Departure of the Volunteers, also known as La Marseillaise...
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    Methuen. Lands, Neil (1977). History, People and Places in Burgundy. Spurbooks. History, People and Places series. Lecomte, Bernard; Thouart, Jean-Louis...
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    iconic sculpture La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, François Rude was born in Dijon on 4 January 1781, the son of a coppersmith/locksmith...
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    for its frescoes on the domed ceiling, and monumental sculptures by François Rude, Carlo Marochetti and other prominent 19th-century French artists. The...
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    horses at the Place de Grève. Fetched from his prison cell on the morning of 28 March 1757, Damiens allegedly said "La journée sera rude" ("The day will...
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    p. 220. Rudé 1976, p. 38. Scurr 2007, p. 284-285, 297. Rudé 1976, p. 40-41. Stewart 1951, p. 519. Rudé 1976, p. 41. Rudé 1976, p. 42. Rudé 1976, p. 41-42...
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    Reflections Rudé (1988), pp. 22–23. Rudé (1988), p. 23. James Friguglietti and Barry Rothaus, "Interpreting vs. Understanding the Revolution: François Furet...
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    represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot; François Rude; Antoine Étex; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire. The...
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    Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa də ɡalo kɔ̃t də lapeʁuz]; variant spelling: La Pérouse; 23 August 1741 – 1788?), often...
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    Jean-Joseph Foucou, Louis-Simon Boizot, François Joseph Bosio, Lorenzo Bartolini, Claude Ramey, François Rude, Corbet, Clodion, Julie Charpentier, and...
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