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Monument to Robert Galley - Place de la Libération
Work by sculptor Didier Rousseau - Navarre
Inaugurated in November 2018, this monument honors the memory of Robert Galley, who was a Free French Resistance fighter, Compagnon de la Libération, Minister from 1968 to 1981 and Mayor of Troyes from 1972 to 1995.
The gilded bronze bust rests on a square column of Burgundy stone.
It weighs almost 150 kg and is 125 cm high. The entire sculpture is 2.75 m high.
Note the butterfly on his left shoulder: a nod to this nature-lover's passion for entomology (the study of insects) and butterflies in particular. He collected almost 20,000 species of butterfly and donated them to the Troyes Natural History Museum.
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- French
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