Teacher carved out career as a sculptor

Anyone walking past the Palais de Chaillot in Paris may have noticed a large sculpture of an architect on the edifice of the north wing. It is the work of the French artist Jean-René Debarre who was born in 1907.

He spent several years teaching sculpture, before winning the prestigious Prix Blumenthal, an awar…

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