Maxime Réal del Sarte
Maxime Réal del Sarte in 1928
Born1888
Paris, France
Died1954
near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
OccupationSculptor
RelativesGeorges Bizet

Maxime Real del Sarte (1888-1954) was a French sculptor and political activist.

Biography

Early life

Maxime Real del Sarte was born on 2 May 1888 in Paris, France, as the son of the sculptor Louis Desire Real and Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte. He was a cousin of the painter Thérèse Geraldy and was also related to the composer Georges Bizet.[1] He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts, and by 1911 was at the Académie Julian, where both his mother and an aunt were teachers.[2] He served in World War I, in the 106th Infantry Regiment of the French Army and had his left arm amputated in 1916 after being wounded at Verdun on 29 January.[1][3][2]

Sculpture

He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited with them from early in his career.[4] He won the Grand Prix national des Beaux-Arts in 1921 for Le premier toit .[5][4] He designed over fifty war memorials in France, including the Monument aux morts des Armées de Champagne at the Ferme de Navarin at Suippes, which depicts both French and US soldiers (this design was also produced as a medallic plaque).[1][3][4][6] He also designed many statues of Joan of Arc, including one in Rouen placed effectively on the site where she was executed (1928).[7][2] Additionally, he designed busts for the Dukes of Guise and Orleans,[1] and a monument to King Edward VII at Biarritz (1922).[8]

Politics

He became involved with the right-wing Action française, where he became associated with Charles Maurras, Léon Daudet, Jacques Bainville, Maurice Pujo, Henri Vaugeois and Léon de Montesquiou.[5][9] He founded and led the royalist organisation Camelots du roi.[9][10] He was a devout and fervent Roman Catholic and a huge admirer of Joan of Arc.[10] When he found out that Francois Thalamas, a Professor at the Lycee Condorcet who was critical of Joan of Arc, was to give lectures at the Sorbonnes, he made sure to disrupt their course with his collaborators.[10] He founded the organization "Les Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc".[11] He was wounded in an anti-parliamentary clash on 6 February 1934.

His statue of General Charles Mangin, which was made thanks to a subscription launched by Marshal Foch and erected on the Place Denys-Cochin, was destroyed by the Germans who occupied Paris in October 1940, on the express orders of Adolf Hitler, one of only two statues in Paris he ordered destroyed.[12] During World War II, he was awarded a medal by the Vichy regime.

Death

He died on 15 February 1954 near Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

Further reading

  • Anne André Glandy, Maxime Real del Sarte, sa vie - son oeuvre, Plon, 1955, 271 pages.[13]
  • Baron Jacques Meurgey de Tupigny and Anne André Glandy, L'oeuvre de Maxime Real del Sarte, Plon, 1956, 37 pages + 29 b/w plates
  • See also List of works by Maxime Real del Sarte

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Judith Keene, Fighting For Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007, pp. 145-146
  2. 1 2 3 "La Maison de PHILIPPI(Y) de BUCELLI(Y) d'ESTRÉES: Maxime Réal del Sarte (1888-1954)". La Maison de PHILIPPI(Y) de BUCELLI(Y) d'ESTRÉES. 2013-08-08. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  3. 1 2 Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 89
  4. 1 2 3 "RÉAL DEL SARTE | E-monumen". e-monumen.net (in French). 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  5. 1 2 Elizabeth Karlsgodt, Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy, Stanford University Press, 2011, p. 179
  6. ↑ "[#64062] Aux Héros des Armées de Champagne, Médaille • EUR 132,00". PicClick FR. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  7. ↑ Eugen Weber, Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth Century France, Stanford University Press, 1962, p. 194
  8. ↑ suzannethinton (2021-05-02). "Brighton-Biarritz 1932". French Brighton. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  9. 1 2 Eugen Weber, The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905-1914, University of California Press, 1959, p. 69
  10. 1 2 3 Marina Warner, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 245
  11. ↑ "Real del Sarte/Joan of Arc". Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  12. ↑ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hitler-in-paris-1940/
  13. ↑ Google Books
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