Édouard Castres

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Edouard Castres (21 June 1838 in Geneva – 28 June 1902 in Annemasse) was a Swiss artist. He studied fine arts with Barthélemy Menn in Geneva before enrolling in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 as a Red Cross volunteer accomanying General Bourbaki's Eastern Army throughout the last phase of the war. With collaborators he executed, in 1881, the large-scale panorama showing the withdrawal of Bourbaki's army into Switzerland and its internment. This Panorama is displayed in a rotunda in Lucerne.

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