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PAJOU, AUGUSTIN (173o—18o9)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAJOU, AUGUSTIN (173o—18o9) , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the ,9th of See also:September 1730. At eighteen he won the Prix de See also:Rome; at See also:thirty he exhibited his Pluton See also:tenant Cerbere enchdine (now in the Louvre). His portrait busts of See also:Buffon and of Madame Du See also:Barry (1773), and his statuette of See also:Bossuet (all in the Louvre), are amongst his best See also:works. When B. See also:Poyet constructed the See also:Fontaine See also:des Innocents from the earlier edifice of P. Lescot (see See also:GoujoN) Pajou provided a number of new figures for the See also:work. Mention should also be made of his bust of Carlin Bertinazzi (1763) at the Comedie Francaise, and the See also:monument of See also:Marie Leczinska, See also:queen of See also:Poland (in the See also:Salon of 1769). Pajou died in Paris on the 8th of May 1809.

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