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Charles Degeorge

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Charles Degeorge's statue La jeunesse d'Aristote
Popular is his pigeon post medal of the Siege of Paris 1870-1871, issued by the French Ministère de la Guerre.

Charles Jean Marie Degeorge (1837 Lyon – 1888 Paris)[1] was a French sculptor, and medallist, whose best-known work, La jeunesse d'Aristote (The Youth of Aristotle) (1875) depicts the philosopher as a semi-nude teenage boy sitting in a large chair, looking bored as he studies a scroll. The statue is currently in the Musée d'Orsay.

Degeorge also sculpted a bust of Henri Regnault which was incorporated into Regnault's monument at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris.

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  1. ^ "Charles Degeorge" (in French). Musée d' Orsay. Retrieved 10 August 2017.