Monument au sport et à Mayssonnié, War memorial and sculpture in Toulouse, France

The Monument au sport et à Mayssonnié centres on Antoine Bourdelle's bronze Héraklès archer, a dark green patinated figure leaning back with the left leg braced on a low rock, both arms raised to hold a drawn curved bow. A taller irregular rocky mass rises to its right. The group stands on a low rectangular stone plinth beneath a concrete canopy carried by square pillars, at the carrefour of boulevard Lascrosses, allée de Barcelone and avenue Paul-Séjourné.

The monument was installed in 1925 to commemorate athletes who died in World War I, with special honor given to rugby player Alfred Mayssonnié. It arose during a period when French cities widely erected artistic memorials to honor their fallen.

Each 11 November, sports clubs lay a wreath at the monument. The square is named after Heracles, and the work was bought at cost price from Antoine Bourdelle, a former student of the École des beaux-arts de Toulouse. A stele with the effigy of Alfred Mayssonnié was added after Paul Voivenel insisted on it.

The monument sits in a public square in central Toulouse and is accessible at any time for visitors to view from multiple angles. Daytime visits offer the best viewing conditions, as sunlight brings out the details of the bronze sculpture more clearly.

Bourdelle sold the bronze at cost price to Paul Voivenel's committee, and the monument was inaugurated on 19 April 1925 near the former Ponts Jumeaux stadium. Each 11 November, sports clubs lay a wreath here. Bourdelle never made the Mayssonnié stele himself; Voivenel had to press him, writing that Mayssonnié had been the pretext and Hercules the flag.