José-Maria de Heredia, Bronze bust monument in Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France

The José-Maria de Heredia monument is a bronze bust of the poet on a marble pedestal, set in the Luxembourg Gardens. The bust shows Heredia with a moustache and a broad-brimmed hat, and the pedestal bears his name and dates. It stands among the lawns and tree-lined walks of the 6th arrondissement park.

The bust was made by Victor Segoffin and inaugurated in the Luxembourg Gardens on 17 October 1925, honouring the poet José-Maria de Heredia, who had died in 1905. Segoffin died the same day as the ceremony, making the monument his last public work.

The bust commemorates José-Maria de Heredia, born in Cuba in 1842, who became a librarian at the Arsenal and a member of the Académie française. His name is also carried by a street bordering the Luxembourg Gardens, and the monument stands near the spot where admirers gathered on the centenary of his birth.

The monument stands in the southwestern section of the Luxembourg Gardens and can be reached during the park's regular daytime hours. You can view it freely while walking through the park, which is accessible throughout the year.

The bust was inaugurated on 17 October 1925, the day sculptor Victor Segoffin died; it was his last public work. The monument stands near the Luxembourg Gardens, where Heredia, born in Cuba in 1842, spent his final years as librarian of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal until his death in 1907.