Against the artist's wishes, it was originally placed on a pedestal, preventing people from seeing the figures' expressions depicted at eye level.
Jean-Charles Cazin and Auguste Beuret both posed for this work, which was inspired by the Chronicles of Jean Froissart.  Casts of this work made later have sometimes separated the title figures from their common base, like the ones displayed at Stanford University and the National Art Gallery in Canberra. Against the artist's wishes, it was originally placed on a pedestal, preventing people from seeing the figures' expressions depicted at eye level. Depicting a scene in which the six titular Frenchmen sacrificed their lives in the face of a siege by Edward III in 1347, for 10 points, what is this sculpture created by Auguste Rodin?
Jean-Charles Cazin and Auguste Beuret both posed for this work, which was inspired by the Chronicles of Jean Froissart.  
The {Burghers} of {Calais} [or {Les Bourgeois} de {Calais}]