page_title: La Délivrance
section_title: Nantes statue
hierarchical_section_title: La Délivrance / Nantes statue
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue outside of the Conseil régional des Pays de la Loire, Nantes
context_page_description: La Délivrance is a 1914 bronze statue by the French sculptor Émile Oscar Guillaume. The statue was created as a celebration of the First Battle of the Marne, when the German army was stopped before capturing Paris in August 1914.
  A 4.9m high example of work has been displayed at Henly's Corner, at the bottom of Regents Park Road at the southern edge of Finchley in north London, now in the London Borough of Barnet, since 1927. Another example has been located in the French city of Nantes since 1927.
context_section_description: On Friday, 17 October 1919, the French newspaper Le Matin announced that 11 copies of the statue, renamed La délivrance, would be created by the founders Maison F. Barbedienne and offered to 11 cities of France and Belgium, occupied or destroyed by the Germans: Amiens, Brussels, Colmar, Liège, Lille, Metz, Reims, Mézières, Saint-Quentin, Strasbourg, Verdun. The statues were cast in a variety of sizes, from 1.1 metres (3 ft 7 in) to 2.6 metres (8 ft 6 in) high.
  The first of these statues was offered to Lille, greatest of the cities occupied during World War I. It was unveiled there on 19 October 1919 in a central public park, the Jardin Vauban in the Esquermes district. The nudity of the statue was a cause of trouble and led to withdrawal of the statue in the following years, and it was stored in the Palais Rameau.
  In 1927, this copy was given to the city of Nantes and displayed beside the memorial tablets listing the city's war dead at the Quai Ceineray.  After being removed and reinstalled at least twice, it has stood in its present position beside the Hôtel de region since 1987.
  Another but smaller copy of the statue exists in the small French town of Chéroy, Yonne, and some others may be still existing in some of the French cities chosen in 1919.
caption: Statue in Nantes in 2012
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