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GUILLAUME, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:CLAUDE See also:EUGENE (1822-1905) , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born at Montbard on the 4th of See also:July 1822, and studied under Cavelier, See also:Millet, and Barrias, at the lcole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts, which he entered in 1841, and where he gained the prix de See also:Rome in 1845 with " See also:Theseus finding on arock his See also:Father's See also:Sword." He became director of the 1 See also:cole des Beaux-Arts in 1864, and director-See also:general of See also:Fine Arts from 1878 to 1879, when the See also:office was suppressed. Many of his See also:works have been bought for public galleries, and his monuments are to be found in the public squares of the See also:chief cities of See also:France. At Rheims there is his See also:bronze statue of " See also:Colbert," at See also:Dijon his " See also:Rameau " See also:monument. The Luxembourg Museum has his " See also:Anacreon " (1852), " See also:Les Gracques " (1853), " Faucheur (1855), and the See also:marble bust of " Mgr See also:Darboy "; the See also:Versailles Museum the portrait of " See also:Thiers "; the See also:Sorbonne Library the marble bust of " See also:Victor le Clerc, See also:doyen de la faculte des lettres." Other works of his are at Trinity See also:Church, St Germain l'Auxerrois, and the church of St Clotilde, See also:Paris. Guillaume was a prolific writer, principally on See also:sculpture and See also:architecture of the Classic See also:period and of the See also:Italian See also:Renaissance. He was elected member of the Academie Francaise in 1862, and in 1891 was sent to Rome as director of the Academie de France in that See also:city. He was also elected an honorary member of the Royal See also:Academy, See also:London, 1869, on the institution of that class.

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