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La Fontaine Memorial in Jardin du Ranelagh

2000?  Photograph of the La Fontaine Memorial in Jardin du Ranelagh in Paris.  Unknown source.

This statue is dear to me for several reasons.  The strongest is that the video team I was a part of in June, 2025 spent several hours in our last morning together doing video work on and around this statue.  It pictures La Fontaine’s best known fable, FC.  The original statue was erected in 1891, but it was melted down during World War II.  The current bronze statue, created by French-Portuguese sculptor Charles Correia, replaced the original in 1983.