Exploration, Polar Exploration

Memorial: M5503

Memorial at Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris commemorating   Admiral J.S.C. Dumont d’Urville d. 1842

Location

Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France, Rest of the World

Transcript

[On pillar] ‘A . LA . MEMOIRE . DU . CONTRE . ADMIRAL / DUMONT . D’URVILLE / NE . LE . XXIII . MAI . MDCCXC . / A CONDE . SUR . NOIREAU . CALVADOS / MORT . LE . VIII . MAI . MDCCCXLII / … CHEMIN . DE . FER . DE . PARIS . A . VERSAILLES’ [Base] ‘NAVIGATION GEOGRAPHIE . HISTOIRE-NATURELLE . PHILOLIGIE / VOYAGE DE LES MERS DU LEVANT / I VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE / II VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE / III VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE POLE SUD / VENUS DE MILO SIGNALEE / GEOGRAPHIE BOTANIQUE DEBRIS DE NAUFR. DE LAPEROUSE REPORTES / TERRE LOUIS PHILIPPE TERRE ADELIE / MONUMENT ELEVE PAR LES SOINS DE LA SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIE’

Details

Description: A column, on the base, profiles of the ships of Dumont D'Urville's voyages of exploration, and the Venus de Milo brought back by him to France. The sequence ends with the Admiral, his wife and son shown being carried up to heaven above a train in flames (he was killed in a railway accident in 1842). The monument also incorporates a portrait bust.
Type: Monument
Materials: Stone
Artists: Antoine Laurant Danton; Simon Claude Constant Dufeux

People

Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville,
Age: 51
Date of Death: 8/5/1842
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: French Navy

Extra

Notes: Antoinette Le Normand-Romain 'Sculpture From Antiquity to the Present Day'
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