Knocked François

François Cogné is a French sculptor born on August 10th, 1876 with Aubin in the Aveyron, deceased on April 9th, 1952. He carried out many official portraits and the war memorial of the Lycée Carnot (Paris), formerly Monge school, and also for the model of the terminal of the Voie of Freedom. During the dark period of Vichy and Occupation, he was the official sculptor of the French State, he made the voyage of Berlin like member of the committee Arno Breker. Pierre-Barthelemy Gheusi tells in his Memories that one asked Cogné to make a bust of Hitler, it accepted, but asked for like only wages the release of ten French prisoners, Hitler learning the thing would have ordered the release of one hundred prisoners.

Iconography

The Russian painter Serge Ivanoff made his portrait. He is represented with a model of the statue of the Maréchal Lyautey installed since the end of protectorate in the gardens of the Consulate of France of Casablanca.

Works

In addition to the model of the Way of Freedom, the equestrian statue of the Marshal Lyautey in Casablanca, the statue in foot of Lyautey (bronze copy with Nancy, birthplace of the marshal), the war memorial of the Carnot college in Paris, one owes him:

the statue of Georges Clémenceau close to the Petit Palais in Paris.
a bust of the Joffre Marshal out of ceramics.
the monument with the memory of Georges Mandel, set up in edge of the Trunk road 7 between Fontainebleau and Nemours.
a bust of Mussolini exposed in 1929.

The sale of its workshop took place on June 16th, 1961, in Paris, Hôtel Drouot.

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