The Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin, modeled 1884–95, cast 1985

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The Burghers of Calais, modeled 1884–95, cast 1985, French, Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, Bronze, 82 1/2 x 94 x 95 in. ( x x cm), Sculpture-Bronze, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), The Burghers of Calais, commemorating an episode during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, is probably the best and certainly the most successful of Rodin's public monuments. Rodin closely followed the account of the French chronicler Jean Froissart (1333 or 1337–after 1400) stating that six of the principal citizens of Calais were ordered to come out of the besieged city with heads and feet bare, ropes around their necks, and the keys of the town and the castle in their hands

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