page_title: List of works by Jules-Charles Le Bozec
section_title: The statue Notre-Dame de Kerdro
hierarchical_section_title: List of works by Jules-Charles Le Bozec / The statue Notre-Dame de Kerdro
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Statue de Notre-Dame de Kerdro, par Jules-Charles Le Bozec (1898-1973). Pointe de Kerpenhir (Morbihan)
context_page_description: Jules-Charles Le Bozec was a French sculptor.
context_section_description: Le Bozec created this huge granite sculpture in 1946. It is 2.7 metres high and stands at Locmariaquer at the entrance to the Gulf of Morbihan, the Pointe de Kerpenhir. It stands on a 3 metre high circular pedestal.
  The legend of Notre-Dame de Kerdro was important to Breton fisherman. The story was that the Virgin Mary had appeared to a fishing boat at the mouth of the Gulf of Morbihan, warned of an impending storm and urged the boat back to port.
  Originally a plaster statue commemorating the legend had been erected on the ramparts of the Kerpenhir fortress but this had been destroyed during the 1939-1945 war when the Germans erected a blockhouse to replace the fortress. After the war a new statue was planned and Le Bozec's maquette was accepted. This maquette had been shown in the Breton pavilion at Paris' exhibition of 1937.  Le Bozec created the statue based on the maquette in 1946 and it was placed in the Église Notre-Dame in 1947. In 1962 it was moved to its present position.
caption: Notre-Dame de Kerdro
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