Maxime Real del Sarte
Maxime Réal del Sarte | |
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 Maxime Réal del Sarte in 1928 | |
| Born | 1888 Paris, France |
| Died | 1954 near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
| Relatives | Georges Bizet |
Maxime Real del Sarte (1888-1954) was a French sculptor and political activist.
Biography
Early life
Maxime Real del Sarte was born on 2 May 1888 in Paris, France as the son of the sculptor Louis Desire Real and Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte. He was a cousin of the painter Thérèse Geraldy and was also related to the composer Georges Bizet.[1] He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts. He served in World War I, and had his left arm amputated in 1916.[1][2]
Sculpture
He won the Grand Prix national des Beaux-Arts in 1921.[3] He designed over fifty war memorials in France.[1][2] He also designed many statues of Joan of Arc.[4] Additionally, he designed busts for the Dukes of Guise and Orlean.[1]
Politics
He became involved with the right-wing Action française, where he became associated with Charles Maurras, Léon Daudet, Jacques Bainville, Maurice Pujo, Henri Vaugeois and Léon de Montesquiou.[3][5] He founded and led the royalist organisation Camelots du roi.[5][6] He was a devout and fervent Roman Catholic and a huge admirer of Joan of Arc.[6] When he found out that Francois Thalamas, a Professor at the Lycee Condorcet who was critical of Joan of Arc, was to give lectures at the Sorbonnes, he made sure to disrupt their course with his collaborators.[6] He founded the organization "Les Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc".[7] He was wounded in an anti-parliamentary clash on 6 February 1934.
During the World War II, he was awarded a medal by the Vichy regime.
Death
He died on 15 February 1954 near Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
Further reading
- Anne Andre Glandy, Maxime Real del Sarte, sa vie - son oeuvre, Plon, 1955, 271 pages.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Judith Keene, Fighting For Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007, pp. 145-146 [1]
- ^ a b Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 89 [2]
- ^ a b Elizabeth Karlsgodt, Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy, Stanford University Press, 2011, p. 179 [3]
- ^ Eugen Weber, Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth Century France, Stanford University Press, 1962, p. 194 [4]
- ^ a b Eugen Weber, The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905-1914, University of California Press, 1959, p. 69 [5]
- ^ a b c Marina Warner, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 245 [6]
- ^ "Real del Sarte/Joan of Arc". Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ Google Books
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