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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 12: Paris.—Society and the courts.—March to May, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
s delighted most in commemorating in busts and statues the benefactors of mankind,—as scholars, men of science, patriots, and liberal statesmen. Sumner wrote to Hillard, April 10, of his visit to David: I was presented to him as a Republican and an American, which at once opened his heart. the great sculptor, the author of the piece in front of the Pantheon, and of many of the statues which have been lately erected in France. He has just completed a statue of Riquet, Pierre Paul Riquet, 1604-1680. He was the engineer as well as projector of the canal. the engineer who, in the time of Louis XIV., started the idea of the canal of Languedoc. I spent a long time in his atelier, during which the great artist was kind enough to show me the casts of his principal works. The statue of Riquet is colossal; it was just completed in the clay, and was to be modelled in marble by another hand. In one part of his atelier a workman was engaged on the statue of Cuvier: it was thus that I witn