Statue of Michel Ney, Bronze military memorial statue at avenue de l'Observatoire, France.

The Statue of Michel Ney is a bronze figure by François Rude, set on a stone pedestal at the corner of avenue de l'Observatoire and Boulevard Montparnasse in the 6th arrondissement. Ney stands with his sword drawn, wearing the uniform of a marshal of the Empire. The pedestal carries an inscription naming him Prince de la Moskowa, and the monument faces the Observatoire garden.

Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen and Prince of the Moskva, was shot on 7 December 1815 near the avenue de l'Observatoire, at the spot where the statue now stands. François Rude's bronze was inaugurated there in 1853, during the Second Empire, when the site was laid out as part of Haussmann's new boulevards. Ney had commanded the rearguard of the Grande Armée during the retreat from Moscow in 1812.

The statue portrays a French military leader in full uniform wielding a sword, as the artist François Rude envisioned him, a figure that Parisians encounter daily while traveling toward the Observatory or Boulevard Montparnasse. The inscriptions on the base remind passersby of a soldier whose name remains alive in the city's memory.

The statue faces the Jardin du Luxembourg across the avenue de l'Observatoire, near the Carrefour de l'Observatoire where Boulevard Montparnasse and Boulevard Saint-Michel meet. Metro stations Vavin and Notre-Dame-des-Champs are the closest; the plinth is reached on foot from the sidewalk. Traffic on the avenue is heavy, so approach from the garden side.

Ney was shot on 7 December 1815 near this spot, in the avenue de l'Observatoire, then a bare alley along the Luxembourg garden wall. Rude's statue was erected there in 1853, so the monument commemorates the execution site rather than marking the grave; Ney's remains lie in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.