Alfred Janniot. Monumental. Religion Until the day when doubt

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Works and memoirs of former foreign members of the school and of various scholars: fasc

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Alfred Janniot. Monumental. Religion Until the day when doubtAlfred Auguste Janniot (1889 1969), a renowned interwar sculptor, left his mark on his contemporaries with his monumental work, embracing and magnifying architecture, both in France and abroad. His two main works, the spectacular bas reliefs for the Muse permanent des colonies (1931) and for the Palais de Tokyo (1937), still resonate in everyone's mind today. He also participated in the great adventure of transatlantic liners, working on le de France