Word: injalbert
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...government decided to distribute Mariannes to all the communes of France, held another competition. This time Jean-Antoine Injalbert was the lucky man. Thousands of plaster copies of his Marianne, a broad-browed, sharp-featured young woman in a "liberty" cap, have been sent all over the world. To the government they seemed quite satisfactory until last year when one Jean Mistler was Under-Secretary of Fine Arts in the Paul-Boncour Cabinet...
...Marianne . . . is a good girl whose placidity does not seem likely to awaken failing energies. . . . The one that Injalbert carved long ago . . . did not lack charm. It was not so long before that they took the Bastille. Her energetic face showed that she still remembered it and that she considered that her task was far from finished...
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