The monument aux morts (war memorial) at Baron which was the work of Albert Jouanneault (1888–1944). The inauguration took place on 24 July 1921. Jouanneault was born in Saumur and studied sculpture in Paris under Antonin Injalbert. He fought in the Great War and became a prisoner of war. He was the sculptor involved in many monument aux morts such as that at Stenay in the Meuse. He returned to Saumur during the Second World War and served in the resistance. He was taken prisoner and deported to Buchenwald where he died in 1944.[7] The monument aux morts at Baron features a standing soldier and the same statue appears in Le Puy-Nôtre-Dame in Maine et Loire. The monument cost 11,700 francs. In Saumur we can see Jouanneault's statue in memory of Dupetit-Thouars(1760–1798) and in L’Hay les Roses, in Val de Marne, a bust by Jouanneault of Jean Jaures.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Weglinde" title="User:Weglinde">Weglinde</a> Gordon Lawson
2010-06-10
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