DAVID d'Angers
(b. 1788, Angers, d. 1856, Paris)

General Bonchamps

1819-25
Marble, statue height 130 cm
Church, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil

This monument was erected in the church where republican soldiers had been imprisoned during the Vendean war. General Bonchamps pleaded for their pardon as he died. The base of the monument is engraved with the words: Pardon the prisoners.




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