List of equestrian statues in France

This is a list of equestrian statues in France. In each region, statues are ranked by chronological order of first erection in the listed location.

Paris and Ile-de-France

Paris

• Henri IV on the Pont Neuf, by François-Frédéric Lemot (1818) replacing destroyed predecessor of 1614
• Louis XIII on Place des Vosges, by Charles Dupaty and Jean-Pierre Cortot (1825), marble replacing destroyed bronze predecessor of 1639
• Louis XIV on Place des Victoires, by François Joseph Bosio (1828)
• Joan of Arc on Rue de Rivoli, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1874, reworked in 1899)
• Genius of Arts on the Louvre Palace façade facing the Seine, by Antonin Mercié (1877) replacing a bas-relief of Napoleon III by Antoine-Louis Barye (1869) deposed on 6 September 1870 and now at the Château de Compiègne ^{[1] [2]}
• Charlemagne et ses Leudes in front of Notre-Dame de Paris, by the brothers Louis and Charles Rochet (1878), erected in 1882
• Etienne Marcel besides the Hôtel de Ville, by Antonin Idrac and Laurent Marqueste (1888)
• The Poet astride Pegasus near Place Édouard-VII  [ fr ], by Alexandre Falguière (1897)
• Joan of Arc in front of Saint-Augustin, by Paul Dubois (1895), erected in 1900
• George Washington on Place d'Iéna, by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter (1900)
• Gladiator by Isidore Bonheur (1902), erected in Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in 1942
• Lafayette on the Cours-la-Reine, by Paul Wayland Bartlett (1908), relocated from the Louvre in 1984; a copy was erected in 2017 at the Monument Pershing - Lafayette  [ fr ] in Versailles
• Edward VII on Place Édouard-VII  [ fr ], by Paul Landowski (1913)
• Saint Louis and Joan of Arc in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, by Hippolyte Lefèbvre (1927)
• Simón Bolívar on the Cours-la-Reine, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1930), new cast of 1910 original in Bogotá, relocated to current site in 1980
• La France renaissante on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, by Holger Wederkinch  [ fr ] (1930)
• Alexander I of Yugoslavia at La Muette, by Maxime Real del Sarte (1936)
• Albert I of Belgium near the Place de la Concorde, by Armand Martial  [ fr ] (1938)
• Joseph Joffre in front of École Militaire, by Maxime Real del Sarte (1939)
• Ferdinand Foch facing the Trocadéro, by Robert Wlérick  [ fr ] and Raymond Martin  [ fr ] (1951)
• José de San Martín in the Parc Montsouris, by Louis-Joseph Daumas (1960), new cast of 1862 original in Buenos Aires
• Louis XIV in front of Louvre Pyramid, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1988), cast in lead of the 1670s marble original kept at Versailles

Ile-de-France

• Marble statue of Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1670s); now replaced by a copy at the end of the pièce d'eau des Suisses  [ fr ]
• Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans in Neuilly-sur-Seine, by Carlo Marochetti (1845), initially erected near Djamaa el Djedid in Algiers and relocated in 1981 ^[3]
• Louis XIV in front of the Palace of Versailles, by Pierre Cartellier and Louis Petitot (1837), originally intended for the Place de la Concorde; repositioned in 2009
• Napoleon at Montereau-Fault-Yonne, by Charles Pierre Victor Pajol  [ fr ] (1867)
• Anne de Montmorency at the Château de Chantilly, by Paul Dubois (1886)
• Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale in front of the Château de Chantilly, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1899)
• John Pershing at the Monument Pershing - Lafayette  [ fr ] in Versailles, by Joachim Costa  [ fr ] (designed in 1937, completed 2017)

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  King Henri IV on the Pont Neuf
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  King Louis XIII at Place des Vosges
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  King Louis XIV at the Place des Victoires
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  Jeanne d'Arc in the Rue de Rivoli
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  Genius of Arts on the Louvre Palace south side
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  Charlemagne in front of the Notre Dame de Paris
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  Etienne Marcel near the Hôtel de Ville
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  General Lafayette at Cours la Reine
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  George Washington
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  José de San Martín in the Parc Montsouris
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  Jeanne d'Arc in front of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
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  Joseph Joffre in front of École Militaire
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  Louis XIV in Versailles
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  Napoleon at Montereau-Fault-Yonne

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

• Louis XIV on Place Bellecour in Lyon, by François-Frédéric Lemot (1826), replacing destroyed predecessor of 1713
• Napoleon on the Prairie de la Rencontre in Laffrey, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1868), originally erected in Grenoble, warehoused in 1870 and re-erected at present site in 1929
• Philis de La Charce at the jardins des Dauphins in Grenoble, by Pierre-Etienne Daniel Campagne  [ fr ] (1900)
• Vercingetorix on Place de Jaude in Clermont-Ferrand, by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1903)
• Joan of Arc in Saint-Étienne, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1916), new cast of the Paris version
• Joan of Arc in Lyon, by Jean-Louis Chorel  [ fr ] (1928)
• Sur les Talons in Briançon, by Gari (2016)

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  Louis XIV in Lyon
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  Napoléon in Laffrey
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  Philis de La Charce in Grenoble
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  Vercingetorix in Clermont-Ferrand
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  Joan of Arc in Saint-Étienne

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

• Joan of Arc in Alise-Sainte-Reine, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1901), new cast of the Montebourg version
• The Defense in Chalon-sur-Saône, by Paul Moreau-Vauthier (1907)

Bretagne

• General Lariboisiere in Fougères, by Georges Récipon (1893)
• Bertrand du Guesclin in Dinan, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1902)
• Duke Arthur III in Vannes, by Arthur Le Duc  [ fr ] (1905)

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  Lariboisiere in Fougères
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  Bertrand du Guesclin in Dinan
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  Arthur III in Vannes

Centre-Val-de-Loire

• Joan of Arc on place du Martroi in Orléans, by Denis Foyatier (1855)
• Louis XII above the portal of the Château de Blois, by Charles Émile Seurre (1857), replacing destroyed predecessor of 1507
• Joan of Arc in Chinon, by Jules Roulleau (1893)
• Joan of Arc in Blois, by Anna Hyatt Huntington (1921)

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  Joan of Arc in Orléans
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  Louis XII, Château de Blois
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  Joan of Arc in Chinon

Corse

• Napoleon and his brothers in Ajaccio, by Antoine-Louis Barye (1865), relocated to nearby site in 1969
• Vincentello d'Istria  [ fr ] in Biguglia, by Cesare Rabiti (2009)

Grand Est

• Louis XIII on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville in Reims, by François Milhomme  [ fr ] (1818), stone replacement of destroyed bronze predecessor of 1624
• Louis XIV on the façade of Strasbourg Cathedral, by Jean Vallastre  [ fr ] (1823); other equestrian statues on the Cathedral exterior by unidentified authors, including those replacing destroyed medieval predecessors representing Clovis, Dagobert, and Rudolf of Habsburg
• Duke Antoine of Lorraine above the main gate of the Palais ducal of Nancy, by Giorné Viard  [ fr ] (1851), replacing destroyed predecessor of 1512
• René II, Duke of Lorraine at Place Saint-Epvre  [ fr ], Nancy, by Mathias Schiff (1883)
• Joan of Arc at Place Jeanne D'Arc, Nancy, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1889), reworked from the earlier Paris version
• Le Veneur in front of Château Perrier  [ fr ] in Épernay, by Pierre Le Nordez (1890)
• Antoine de Lasalle in Lunéville, by Henri-Louis Cordier  [ fr ] (1892)
• Joan of Arc at Place du Parvis, Reims, by Paul Dubois (1896), new cast of the Paris version, erected in 1900
• Joan of Arc in Mirecourt, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1903), new cast of the Paris version
• Joan of Arc at the Ballon d'Alsace, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1906), new cast of the Montebourg version
• Joan of Arc in Strasbourg, by Paul Dubois (1897), new cast of the Paris version first erected in front of the Palais du Rhin in 1920, relocated to present site in 1965
• Joan of Arc in Gandrange, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1921), new cast of the Montebourg version
• Joan of Arc in the military cemetery of Plaine, by Xavier Obert (1924)
• Joan of Arc in Bischoffsheim, by Paul Brutschi (1924)
• Joan of Arc in Marlenheim, by Alois Ruscher (1948)
• Joan of Arc in Vaucouleurs, by Georges Halbout (1951), initially erected near the Grande Poste in Algiers and relocated in 1966
• Lafayette in Metz, by Claude Goutin  [ fr ] (2004), replacing a recast of Bartlett's Paris statue erected in 1920 and destroyed by German occupation forces in World War II

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  Dagobert in Strasbourg
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  Otto III in Strasbourg
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  Rudolph of Habsburg in Strasbourg
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  Louis XIV in Strasbourg
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  Duke Antoine of Lorraine in Nancy
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  Joan of Arc in Reims
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  Joan of Arc on the Ballon d'Alsace
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  Joan of Arc in Plaine

Hauts-de-France

• Louis I, Duke of Orléans in the Château de Pierrefonds, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1869)
• Louis Faidherbe in Lille, by Antonin Mercié (1896)
• José de San Martín in Boulogne-sur-Mer, by Henri Allouard  [ fr ] (1909)
• Joan of Arc in Lille, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1912), new cast of the Paris version, stolen in 1918 and replaced in 1925
• Claude Louis Hector de Villars in Denain, by Henri Gauquié  [ fr ] (1913), destroyed in 1918 and recast in 1922
• Joan of Arc in Compiègne, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1930), new cast of the Paris version
• Ferdinand Foch in Cassel, by Georges Malissard (1928)
• Douglas Haig in Montreuil-sur-Mer, by Paul Landowski (1931), melted by German occupation forces in 1940 and recast in 1950
• Ferdinand Foch in Lille, by Edgar-Henri Boutry (1936)

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  Faidherbe in Lille

Normandie

• William the Conqueror in Falaise, by the brothers Louis and Charles Rochet (1851)
• Napoleon in Cherbourg-Octeville, by Armand Le Véel (1858)
• Napoleon in Rouen, by Vital Gabriel Dubray  [ fr ] (1865)
• Joan of Arc in Montebourg, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1899)
• Bertrand du Guesclin in Caen, by Arthur Le Duc  [ fr ] (1905)
• Joan of Arc in Caen, by Joseph Ebstein  [ fr ] (1931), initially erected in Oran and relocated in 1964
• Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans at the Château d'Eu, by Carlo Marochetti (1845), second cast of the version now in Neuilly-sur-Seine, initially erected in the Cour Carrée of the Louvre in Paris, relocated to Versailles in 1848 ^[4] and to the present location in 1971

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  Napoleon in Cherbourg-Octeville
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  Bertrand du Guesclin in Caen

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

• King Francis I in Cognac, by Antoine Étex (1864)
• Monument to the fallen in the Franco-Prussian War in Bordeaux, by Jean Georges Pierre Achard (1913)
• Joan of Arc in La Chapelle-Saint-Laurent, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1936), new cast of the Montebourg version
• Joan of Arc in Bordeaux, by Jules Déchin  [ fr ] (1950)
• Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan in Lupiac, by Daphné Du Barry  [ fr ] (2015)
• Geoffroy à la Grand Dent  [ fr ] in Lusignan, by Jane Conil (2007)

Occitanie

• Louis XIV on the Promenade du Peyrou  [ fr ] in Montpellier, by Joseph Jan Baptiste de Bay (1838), replacing destroyed predecessor of 1718
• Joan of Arc in Castres, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1914), new cast of the Paris version
• Joan of Arc in Toulouse, by Antonin Mercié (1922)
• Joseph Joffre in Rivesaltes, by Auguste Maillard  [ fr ] (1931)
• Ferdinand Foch in Tarbes, by Firmin Michelet  [ fr ] (1935)
• General Édouard de Castelnau in Saint-Affrique, by Louis Chavignier  [ fr ] (1954)

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  Louis XIV in Montpellier
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  Joan of Arc in Toulouse

Pays de la Loire

• Napoleon in La Roche-sur-Yon, by Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (1854), new cast of the 1852 version then in Lyon
• Joan of Arc in Nantes, by Charles-Auguste Lebourg (1904)
• Joan of Arc in Saint-Germain-sur-Moine, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1914), new cast of the Montebourg version

Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur

• Joan of Arc in Rognonas, by Mathurin Moreau and Pierre Le Nordez (1924), new cast of the Montebourg version

Disappeared statues

• Clovis, Dagobert, and Rudolf of Habsburg on the façade of Strasbourg Cathedral, late 13th or early 14th century, ^{[5] [6]} destroyed in December 1793 ^[7]
• Philip IV the Fair inside Notre-Dame de Paris, wood (14th century), destroyed in the early 1790s
• Charles VII above the entrance of the Palais Jacques Coeur in Bourges (c.1450), destroyed in 1792
• Louis XII above the entrance of the Château de Blois, by Guido Mazzoni (1507), destroyed in 1792
• Duke Antoine of Lorraine above the entrance of the Palais ducal in Nancy, by Mansuy Gauvin  [ fr ] (1512), destroyed in 1792
• Henry IV on the Pont Neuf in Paris, by Giambologna and Pietro Tacca (1611), erected in 1614 and destroyed in 1792
• Louis XIII on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville in Reims, by Nicolas Jacques (1624), destroyed in 1792
• Louis XIII on Place Royale, now Place des Vosges in Paris, by Daniele da Volterra ^[8] and Pierre II Biard (1639), destroyed in 1792
• Louis XIV on Place Royale, now Place de la Libération  [ fr ] in Dijon, by Étienne Le Hongre (1690), erected in 1750 and destroyed in 1792
• Louis XIV on Place Louis-le-Grand, now Place Vendôme in Paris, by François Girardon (1699), destroyed in 1792
• Louis XIV on Place Bellecour in Lyon, by Martin Desjardins (late 17th century), erected in 1713 and destroyed in 1793
• Louis XIV on the Promenade du Peyrou  [ fr ] in Montpellier, by Pierre Mazeline  [ fr ] and Simon Hurtrelle  [ fr ] (1692), erected in 1718 and destroyed in 1792
• Louis XIV on Place Royale, now Place du Parlement-de-Bretagne  [ fr ] in Rennes, by Antoine Coysevox (1693), initially intended for Nantes, erected in 1726 and destroyed in 1793
• Louis XV on Place Royale, now Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, erected in 1743 and destroyed on 20 August 1792
• Louis XV on Place Louis XV, now Place de la Concorde in Paris, by Edmé Bouchardon and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1763), destroyed in 1792
• Napoleon I on Place Napoléon, now Place Carnot in Lyon, by Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (1852), destroyed in 1870-71
• Diego Velázquez on the Place du Louvre in Paris, by Emmanuel Frémiet (1892), relocated to the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in the mid-1930s and destroyed during the Spanish Civil War ^[9]
• Emperor William I on the Esplanade  [ fr ] in Metz, by Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller (1892), destroyed in 1918
• Emperor Frederick III on Kaiserplatz, now Place Raymond-Mondon  [ fr ] in Metz, by Franz Dorrenbach (1909), destroyed in 1918
• Emperor William I on Kaiserplatz, now Place de la République in Strasbourg (1911), destroyed in 1918

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  Philip the Fair's statue in Notre-Dame de Paris
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  Henri IV's statue on the Pont-Neuf in Paris, engraving c.1630
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  Louis XIII on Place Royale in Paris, engraving by Alain Manesson Mallet, 1702
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  Louis XIV on Place Louis-le-Grand in Paris, engraving by Pierre Lepautre, c.1700
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  Louis XIV in Lyon, by Jean Audran, 18th century
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  Louis XIV in Rennes, engraving by Simon Thomassin  [ fr ], 1699
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  Louis XV in Bordeaux, engraving by Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis, 1743
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  Louis XV on Place Louis XV in Paris, engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Hubert-François Gravelot, 1766
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  Nieuwerkerke's Napoleon exhibited on the rond-point des Champs-Élysées in Paris before its erection in Lyon, 1852
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  William I in Metz, 1905 postcard
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  William I in Strasbourg, postcard
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  Destruction of the statue of William I in Strasbourg, photograph by Frédéric Gadmer, 21 November 1918

See also

• List of equestrian statues

Notes

1. Michèle Beaulieu (1946). "Les esquisses de la décoration du Louvre au Département des sculptures". Bulletin Monumental. 104.
2. "Monument à Napoléon III". À nos Grands Hommes - Collection France Debuisson / Musée d'Orsay.
3. Beatrice Ivey (13 February 2019). "From Algiers to Neuilly: The Duc d'Orléans Statue". Narratives and Representations of the French Settlers of Algeria: An AHRC Project at the University of Stirling.
4. Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1870: Revised and Verified by Personal Inspection, and Arranged on an Entirely New Plan. Paris: A. and W. Galignani and Co. 1870. p. 160.
5. "Les Strasbourgeois et leur cathédrale". Strasbourg.
6. Charlotte Stanford (July 2013), Commemorating the Dead in Late Medieval Strasbourg: The Cathedral's Book of Donors and Its Use (1320-1521), Ashgate Publishing, p. 91
7. "1789 à 1870 : Dégâts de la Révolution et restaurations". Fondation Oeuvre Notre-Dame.
8. Antonia Boström (December 1995), "Daniele da Volterra and the Equestrian Monument to Henry II of France", The Burlington Magazine, 137 (1113): 809–820, JSTOR   886824
9. Dominique Perchet (12 April 2012). "Monument à Diego Velasquez – Madrid (détruit et remplacé)". e-monumen.net.