Maxime Real del Sarte

Maxime Real del Sarte

Maxime Real del Sarte in 1928
Born 1888
Paris, France
Died 1954
near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
Occupation Sculptor
Religion Roman Catholic
Relatives Georges 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. He served in World War I, and had his left arm amputated in 1916.[1][2]

Sculpture

He won the Grand Prix national des Beaux-Arts in 1921.[3] He designed over fifty war memorials in France.[1][2] He also designed many statues of Joan of Arc.[4] Additionally, he designed busts for the Dukes of Guise and Orlean.[1]

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.[3][5] He founded and led the royalist organisation Camelots du roi.[5][6] He was a devout and fervent Roman Catholic and a huge admirer of Joan of Arc.[6] 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.[6] He founded the organization "Les Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc".[7] He was wounded in an anti-parliamentary clash on 6 February 1934.

During the 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

See also

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 Jay Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 89
  3. 1 2 Elizabeth Karlsgodt, Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy, Stanford University Press, 2011, p. 179
  4. ↑ Eugen Weber, Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth Century France, Stanford University Press, 1962, p. 194
  5. 1 2 Eugen Weber, The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905-1914, University of California Press, 1959, p. 69
  6. 1 2 3 Marina Warner, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 245
  7. ↑ "Real del Sarte/Joan of Arc". Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  8. ↑ Google Books
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