Monument to Waldeck-Rousseau, Marble statue in Tuileries Garden, France.
The Monument to Waldeck-Rousseau by Laurent Marqueste stands in the Tuileries Garden, a marble composition centred on a bust of the statesman. Behind it rise Corinthian columns, while allegorical figures representing France and workers flank the base. The whole rises about five metres.
The monument was commissioned by public subscription and inaugurated in 1910 in the Tuileries Garden, with Laurent Marqueste as sculptor and a design centred on Waldeck-Rousseau's bust. Waldeck-Rousseau, premier from 1899 to 1902, was the lawyer who defended the widow of Captain Dreyfus and pushed through the 1901 law on associations that curbed religious congregations.
The monument's base carries reliefs of workers and a female figure of France, carved by Laurent Marqueste and unveiled in 1909. Waldeck-Rousseau's name is inscribed on the pedestal, and the marble group stands among the garden's paths where visitors pass it on the way to the Jeu de Paume.
The monument stands along the pathways of Tuileries Garden in the first arrondissement and is accessible for wheelchair users. You can easily reach it during a walk through the garden's main routes.
The bronze elements were removed under the Vichy regime during World War II, but the marble structure stayed in place. Visitors can still see the empty fittings where the metal parts were attached, a trace of the wartime requisition of metals for armament.
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