Maxime Real del Sarte
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Maxime Real del Sarte in 1920s
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| Born | 2 May 1888 Paris, France |
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| Occupation | Sculptor |
| Relatives | Georges Bizet |
Maxime Real del Sarte (2 May 1888 – 15 February 1954) was a French sculptor, mutilé de guerre,[1] founder and leader of the King's Camelots.
Biography
Maxime Real del Sarte was born on 2 May 1888 in Paris, France, 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.[2] He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1908. On the morning of the competition, he became politically involved, on the side of the anti-Dreyfusards: entering the Palais de Justice, he appeared at the solemn re-entry hearing of the Court of Cassation and, apostrophizing the magistrates, accused them of "forfeiture" with regard to the last appeal in the Dreyfus case. It was after this incident that he contacted representatives of the Action française.
The leader of the Camelots du roi was involved in all the battles of the nationalist and monarchist movement, including the famous Thalamas affair,[3] named after Amédée Thalamas, the historian who tried to teach a course on Joan of Arc at the Sorbonne, after referring to the Saint as a "witch whose punishment had been well-deserved".[4] It earned Maxime Real del Sarte a ten-month stay in the Santé prison. In 1910, Maxime Real del Sarte, a young royalist, was excluded from military promotion, which led to incidents provoked by Action Française, but disapproved by the Duke of Orleans, in an interview given to the newspaper Le Gaulois on March 203.
A fervent Catholic, Maxime was an admirer of Joan of Arc to whom he devoted many works.[5] His person," wrote the Baron Meurgey de Tupigny, "was dominated by the saint, of whom he would later say: 'I was always her servant.' "He fought for her all his life."
He served in World War I, as a lieutenant in the 106th infantry regiment, was wounded at Les Éparges (on the Verdun front), on January 29, 1916, and had his left arm amputated.[2][6]
He nevertheless returned to his profession as a sculptor and the work he had conceived in March 1914, Le Premier Toit, was awarded the Grand Prix National des Beaux-Arts in 1921. Anne André Glandy described it: "A man and a woman kneeling one in front of the other: in a gesture of protection the man raises the woman and holds her while she tenderly tries to lean on him. This is the principle of the keystone, the basis of all architecture."[7] Charles Maurras wrote a poem about this work.
From then on, the artist's fame grew, both among his friends and in the official world, from which he received numerous commissions. With the hand that remained to him," noted René Brécy, "he modeled a hundred very varied works, more perhaps conceived in a meditation that was at once fiery and subtle. Unable to handle the chisel, he directed with astonishing mastery that of the practitioners, chosen among all, to whom he had to entrust the execution of his models."
The activity of his sculptor's workshop did not change his militancy, nor his ideas and friendships: first Philippe d'Orléans, whom he had known since 1913, then the Duke of Guise and finally the Count of Paris. He founded in 1926 an association that he named Les Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc, under the aegis of which he worked to obtain the lifting of the condemnation pronounced by the Vatican against the Action Française (the lifting was obtained in July 1939).
He participated in the anti-parliamentary riot of February 6, 1934, during which he was wounded.
In 1952, he intervened, with Henry Bordeaux, with the President of the Republic Vincent Auriol to obtain the medical pardon of Charles Maurras, sentenced to life imprisonment for intelligence with the enemy, by the Court of Justice of Lyon in 1945.
In poor health, he retired to his house in the Pyrenees, near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, where he died in February 1954.
Works
He won the Grand Prix national des Beaux-Arts in 1921.[8] He designed over fifty war memorials in France.[2][6] He made several representations of Joan of Arc,[9] including a funerary statue from the 1930s in Bar-le-Duc, which is quite similar to the monument in Rouen, except that flowers replace the flames. Additionally, he designed busts for the Dukes of Guise and Orleans.[2]
The statue of General Mangin that he sculpted 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 orders of Adolf Hitler. Only the head remained, preserved today in the Caverne du Dragon.
See also
Notes
- ↑ War-Disabled man.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Judith Keene, Fighting For Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007, pp. 145-146 [1]
- ↑ Warner 2000
- ↑ Osgood 1970, 83.
- ↑ Warner 2000
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 89 [2]
- ↑ Blandy 1955
- ↑ Elizabeth Karlsgodt, Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy, Stanford University Press, 2011, p. 179 [3]
- ↑ Weber 1962, 194.
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