Monument à Jean de Bologne

Do you know Jean de Bologne? No, then perhaps you've heard of this artist who became famous in Italy under the name Giambolona? This great sculptor was born in Douai in 1524, and very soon left the city for Italy, where he died in 1608. Many of his masterpieces can be found in Florence. Alexandre Descatoire, another Douais sculptor, was commissioned in 1909 to create a monument to the glory of Jean de Bologne. The present monument dates from 1932. During the First World War, the Germans founded the first.