List of works by Louis Botinelly
Name Location Date Notes
La Belle de Mai War memorial ( monument aux morts ) La Belle de Mai This memorial stands in the Place Bernard Cadenat of this Marseille suburb
Moustiers-Sainte-Marie War memorial ( monument aux morts ) Moustiers-Sainte-Marie 1920 A helmeted woman stands on rocks . Next to her , a large rock bears the names of the dead
Monument aux instituteurs bas-alpins morts pour la patrie IUFM Iinstitut universitaire de formation des maitres Digne-les-Bains 1920 This monument in marble is located in the courtyard of the institute 's building in 15 avenue Joseph Reinach . It comprises an obelisk with carvings of oak and olive leaves at the top . Two schoolchildren , a boy and a girl , stand before the obelisk and offer flowers in tribute to those men remembered ; members of the institute who gave their lives in the 1914-1918 war
Sisteron War memorial ( monument aux morts ) Sisteron 1921 A female allegory for France holds aloft an olive branch . She is enveloped in an unfurling flag . The inscription reads .mw-parser-output .templatequote { overflow : hidden ; margin:1em 0 ; padding:0 40px } .mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite { line-height:1.5em ; text-align : left ; padding-left:1.6em ; margin-top:0 } Aux enfants de Sisteron morts pour la France guerre 1914-1918 The monument stands in front of Sisteron 's Notre Dame cathedral ( Cathédrale Notre Dame des Pommiers et Saint Thyrse )
Digne-les-Bains War memorial ( monument aux morts ) Rond-point du Onze Novembre . Digne-les-Bains 1922 This memorial to the dead of the 1914-1918 war can be seen in the centre of a roundabout as one enters the town . Botinelly had been born in Digne-les-Bains . In his composition a female figure , an allegory for France , comforts a dying French soldier who lays across her lap whilst she proudly holds an unfurling French national flag and to underline the sense of victory a German eagle lies at her feet . The figure stands on a pedestal which has a bas-relief showing soldiers fighting at the front guided and protected by a winged angel of victory
Monument in honour of the French resistance Aix-en-Provence This monument remembering the French resistance stands in Saint-Pierre cemetery . A figure of a member of the resistance stands in front of a memorial in the form of a wall which is inscribed with the names of those who fought and lay down their lives fighting the Nazi forces and two bas-reliefs showing them in action fighting in a local wood
Riez War memorial ( monument aux morts ) Riez The memorial consists of an obelisk at the top of which are helmets and a garland of oak leaves . In front of the obelisk stands a woman , an allegory for France . She is reading the inscription on the obelisk and holds a sprig of laurel . The names of two important battles of the war , the Somme and Verdun , are inscribed on the upper part of the obelisk
Valréas War memorial ( monument aux morts ) Valréas 1921 The memorial stands in Valréas ' avenue Charles de Gaulle and consists of a statue and a small bas-relief . The inscription reads Valréas à ses morts glorieux 1914 , 1918 The limestone statue , an allegory for France , holds a draped flag and offers out a branch of laurel . The bas-relief depicts soldiers carrying a wounded comrade on a stretcher . Valréas war memorial
Avignon War memorial ( Monument aux morts du jardin des Doms ) Avignon 1924 This memorial is situated at the entry of the jardin du rocher des Doms by the Cathédrale Notre Dame des Doms . A 3-metre-high figure in Carrara marble , an allegory for Souvenir ( remembrance ) , dominates the memorial which is completed by two bas-reliefs . One depicts a dead soldier being buried at the front by his comrades and another depicts grief ; a woman kneels before a dead soldier . It was inaugurated at a ceremony on 11 November 1924 officiated by Edouard Daladier and François Albert . Monument aux morts du jardin des Doms
War memorials
This is a listing of the major works of Louis Botinelly, a French sculptor born in Digne on 2 January 1883 and dying in Marseille on 26 March 1962. His father was a mason, originally from Tessin in Switzerland, who had a workshop in Digne before the family moved to Marseille when his father inherited a workshop there from his brother. Thanks to a bursary from the city of Marseille, Botinelly was able to stay in Italy for a period in 1902 and then study in Paris under Jules Coutan. He moved to Paris in 1906. In 1914 he was conscripted and joined the 7th Regiment of Engineers in Avignon. The huge demand for war memorials after 1918 meant that in the early 1920s he received many commissions for war memorial sculptures as evidenced in the listing below. In some records the sculptor's name is recorded as Botinelli.