9 November 2014

Alfred de Musset, 8th arrondissement, Paris

On avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, immediately south of the Palais de la Découverte and in front of the Vallée Suisse, is a marble sculpture of Alfred de Musset and lovers/muses. The work was executed by Alphonse Emmanuel de Moncel de Perrin from a single marble block and placed here in 1910. The name is Le Rêve du Poète ('The Poet's Dream').


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