Léon-Ernest Drivier

Biography

Main works

• La France apportant la paix et la prospérité aux colonies : a ten-meter gilden bronze statue, representing the warrior Athena with a spear, overlooking a pond at several levels, Porte Dorée in Paris. This statue was placed there for its proximity to the Museum of Colonial opened in 1931 for the International Colonial Exhibition.
• Les Muses and La Joie de vivre, made to the Jardins du Trocadéro for the 1937 Exposition Universelle.
• The Monument aux morts de Strasbourg on Place de la République, inaugurated in 1936 by French President Albert Lebrun. This is one of the few monuments dedicated to the French dead pacifists.