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This statue of fame sounding a trumpet was commissioned on September 3, 1597, to crown the funerary monument of Jean-Louis de La Vallette, Duc d'Epernon and governor of Gascony, and Marguerite de Foix-Candale, in the church of Saint-Blaise de Cadillac (Gironde). It was installed on top of a canopied funerary monument modelled on the great royal tombs of Saint-Denis and the monument to Anne de Montmorency. The wings of Fame were re-sculpted in bronze by Chinard around 1805.
The most important French sculptors of the period were Pierre Biard and Matthieu Jacquet. Biard's Fame shows him to have been a robust if somewhat insensitive follower of Giambologna.
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