Even Voltaire got involved…
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Voltaire, bronze after Houdon, square Monge, Paris, postcard from August 29, 1903: Don’t forget us -
Postcard sent in 1910 by a German student to his family in Dresden: On Saturday, tired from a long walk, I sat on one of these benches to wait for the time when a lecture was to begin at the university… -
Plinth of Voltaire dismantled, COARC storage, Ivry-sur-Seine, 2024 -
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Voltaire playing chess with Father Adam, Jean Huber, etching, 1762-1764, source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France -
Voltaire in the street, Paris, December 2024 -
Voltaire, Jean-Antoine Houdon, preparatory study, patinated plaster and terracotta, 1778, Louvre, in the exhibition Corps invisibles, Rodin Museum, Paris 2024 -
Eye contact, BnF - National Library of France, Paris, October 2024 -
Voltaire, Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1781, original plaster, BnF - National Library of France, Paris -
The Excellent Worker, Charles Théodore Perron, 1909, original plaster, Petit Palais Museum, Paris -
Recovery of non-ferrous metals, poster, Ivry-sur-Seine, 1941, municipal archives -
Help the French industry, bring your non-ferrous metals, poster, 1941, Musée de la Libération de Paris - musée du Général Leclerc - musée Jean Moulin -
Railway workers, recovering scrap metal means giving France shells and cannons, poster, 1940s, Ville de Paris - Bibliothèque Forney -
Condorcet, photo Pierre Jahan, text Jean Cocteau, from the book Death and the Statues, 1941-1946 -
Voltaire, after Houdon, Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanmanufaktur, Thuringia, Germany, scale 1/6, around 1880 -
→ Death and the Statues, Pierre Jahan and Jean Cocteau, 1941-1946, Musée Carnavalet - History of Paris