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Grenoble – Place Victor Hugo

Berlioz monument in 1908

This photo was published in the March 1908 issue of the monthly journal Musica, with a blank background, as part of an article on the influence of Berlioz on contemporary music by Alfred Bruneau. An original copy of this issue, which is devoted entirely to Berlioz, is in our own collection. The apparent pattern on the pedestal is due to the poor quality of the original print.

This postcard shows the Berlioz monument around 1910.

This 1903 postcard shows the same statue inside a building; it was posted in Grenoble on 15 April 1903. According to the printed caption, partially hidden under the sender’s message on the blank margins of the card, the statue was made by V. Basset, a Dauphinois sculptor, and the card is a Berlioz centenary souvenir. We have not been able to identify the building which housed the statue at the time this card was published. Nor do we know whether in fact it is the same statue that is now located in the Place Victor Hugo.

Nice – Jardins Albert 1er

Artist: Henri Blattès

We are most grateful to Mr Ian Woolf for sending us the above photo, taken by himself.

See also Berlioz in Nice elsewhere on this site.

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