L'Homme de la Roche, Historic statue near Saône River in Lyon, France

L'Homme de la Roche is a stone statue of Jean Kleberger, carved by Pierre Toussaint Bonnaire in Cruas stone and inaugurated on 16 September 1849. The figure wears a long coat over a knee-length tunic, stockings and shoes; his right hand holds a purse and his left rests on his chest holding his testament. It stands on a stepped base inscribed "BONNAIRE 1862", set on a rough pile of dark stones with a plaque naming Kleberger as échevin de Lyon, citizen of Geneva and Bern, born in Nuremberg in 1486 and died in Lyon in 1546.

A wooden statue was raised in Kleberger's honour soon after his death in 1546, renewed in 1729 and again in 1820. After that statue lost its head, the present stone figure by architect René Dardel and sculptor Pierre Toussaint Bonnaire, carved from Cruas stone, was inaugurated on 16 September 1849 on a 4.25-metre rock pedestal.

Kleberger was nicknamed "the man who marries poor girls" for his gifts to Lyon's poor, and the statue shows him as a bourgeois holding his will in the left hand and his purse in the right. Rabelais mentions him in the Fifth Book, recalling a rhinoceros that "Hans Cleberg" had shown him.

The best way to reach the statue is to use the footbridge that begins from the street along the Saône bank. The monument can be visited anytime during daylight hours since it sits in a public outdoor location along the river.

The statue's base carries the inscription "BONNAIRE 1862", naming the sculptor Pierre Toussaint Bonnaire and a date; the figure itself was inaugurated on 16 September 1849. Kleberger's left hand holds his will and his right hand his purse, the symbols of his generosity. The stone is Cruas limestone, set on a rock pedestal 4.25 m high.