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    Philippe-Laurent Roland (13 August 1746 – 11 July 1816) was a French sculptor. A native of Pont-à-Marcq, Nord, he died in Paris. His art is neoclassical...
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    examined and praised by French critic Roland Barthes in his book Writer Sollers. Sollers was born as Philippe Joyaux on 28 November 1936, in Talence...
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    Delusse and in 1808 traveled to Paris to study in the studio of Philippe-Laurent Roland. While in Paris he did work both on the Arc de Triomphe and the...
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    new exterior sculptures were added by Jean Guillaume Moitte and Philippe-Laurent Roland.[citation needed] An additional building was added in 1866 along...
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  • Académie des Beaux-Arts in section II: Sculpture. elected 1795: Philippe-Laurent Roland (1746–1816) 1816: Claude Ramey (1794–1838) 1838: Augustin-Alexandre...
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    lived long enough to witness the Revolution of 1830 that brought Louis Philippe I(the Citizen King) to the throne. He was 76 years old when he died in...
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    became the pupil of Jean-Antoine Houdon, then that of sculptor Philippe-Laurent Roland and the painter Jacques-Louis David. In 1809, he won the Prix de...
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    Homer, 1812, by Philippe-Laurent Roland...
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    Dominique Martin Dupuy. Général de brigade. Killed in Cairo in 1798. (Philippe-Laurent Roland) François Paul Brueys, comte d’Aigalliers. Vice-amiral. Killed...
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    was a popular theme in revolutionary France, being sculpted by Philippe-Laurent Roland (1782) and painted by Bouchet Louis André Gabriel, Bouillon Pierre...
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