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and the twelve stone statues of 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in) on the peristyle of the facade of the Grand Théâtre de
Bordeaux. They represent nine muses and three goddesses. He completed four himself and entrusted his assistant Van den Drix the task of carving the others from models that he had
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and surrounded by the sick, commanding that the school be built. Architecture, Surgery, Vigilance and
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Pierre François
Berruer married Anne-Catherine Ménagé. He died at home in the Cour du Museum in the 4th arrondissement of Paris on 15 Germinal V (4 April 1797). He was aged 63.
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117:Abraham et Melchisédech
85:Pierre-François Berruer
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239:École des Beaux-Arts
211:Jean-Baptiste d'Huez
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315:Faith and Humility
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