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À nos grands hommes 26/09/2021 00:01 Monument à Etienne Méhul Date : 1892 Type d'oeuvre : statue Catégorie de monument : Grands hommes Matériaux : bronze Sculpteur(s) : Croisy, Onésyme-Aristide (Fagnon, Ardennes 1840 - Fagnon, Ardennes 1899) Personnage(s) représenté(s) : Méhul, Etienne (Givet 1763 - Paris 1817) Fondeur : Durenne A. (? - ?) Localisation à l'origine : France, Grand-Est, Ardennes, Givet, 42, place Méhul Inscriptions : sur le piédestal, devant : MEHUL 1763 - 1817 à gauche : LE CHANT DU DEPART / JOSEPH / EUPHROSINE ET CORRADIN / STRATONICE à droite : LE CHANT DU 25 MESSIDOR / ARIODANT / LE JEUNE HENRI à l'arrière : ERIGE / LE 2 OCTOBRE / 1892 Historique : 1842 : 26 juin, inauguration place d'Armes, d'un buste de Méhul en marbre blanc exécuté par Gechter élevé par souscription. Il est déplacé ensuite en haut du grand escalier du théâtre. 1890 : la ville supprime ses remparts ; sur les glacis aplanis, une grande place est créée qui prend le nom de place Méhul. 1892 : à l’initiative du maire J. Lartigue, une statue de Méhul est érigée 1892 : 5 octobre, inauguration sous la présidence de Léon Bourgeois, ministre de l’Instruction publique et des Beaux-Arts. Massenet prononce un vibrant discours et rend hommage à Méhul au nom du Conservatoire. "La petite ville de Givet se dota de deux arcs de triomphe, érigés l'un par les sapeurs-pompiers et l'autre par le génie militaire, et d'un portique portant les noms de quelques oeuvres de Méhuul inscrits dans les cartouches", Le Ménestrel, 9 octobre 1892 cité par Lalouette 2018, p. 407 1918 : la statue est enlevée par les Allemands. 1926 : L’érection du monument aux morts exige le déplacement de la statue au nord de la place. Grâce aux documents retrouvés, Derville réalise une copie exacte de celle de Croisy. 1926 : 30 mai, inauguration de la réplique 1942-1944 : la statue est refondue sous le régime de Vichy. 1955 : remplacée par une statue en pierre de M. Grattesat Description : H. 2,80 m. Une vieille souche de chêne, sur laquelle poussent de nouvelles et À nos grands hommes 26/09/2021 00:01 robustes feuilles, symbolise la génération révolutionnaire qui a donné des héros à la Patrie. Avec d'autres titres figure le "Chant du départ", le plus célèbre du grand compositeur de la Révolution française, Expositions : 1890, Paris, Salon, n° 3724 Oeuvres en rapport : 1842, buste marbre de Gechter Statue pierre de remplacement +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Buste en marbre de Gechter, 1840 Statue pierre de M. Grattesat, 1955 Source : Fonds Debuisson Documentation du musée d’Orsay 2003, 26 août, communication écrite de M. Wallendorff, Maire de Givet Bibliographie : 1995, Hubert, Pierre, 150 ans de vie Givetoise 1789-1940, Charleville-Mézières, Terres Ardennaises 2018, Lalouette, Jacqueline, Un peuple de statues. La célébration sculptée des grands hommes (France 1801-2018), photographies de Gabriel Bouyé, Paris, Mare & Martin, p. 44, 219, 363, 407, 440, 506 Identifiant : 3783.

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