Monument to Charles Mathieu

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Monument to Charles Mathieu in Lourches

The monument to Charles Mathieu stands in front of the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church in Lourches , a French commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region . The monument at Square du 8-May-1945 was added to the list of listed buildings ( Base Mérimée ) in France in 2009 as Monument historique .

Charles Mathieu (* 1798 in Anzin ) was an engineer, director of the Compagnie des mines de Douchy and mayor of Lourches. The company owned extensive facilities and tens of thousands of employees in the northern French coal region (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012 ).

The monument was commissioned by the Compagnie des mines de Douchy and designed by the architect Constant Moyaux by the sculptor Corneille-Henri Theunissen and donated to the community in 1901.

The life-size bronze figure of Charles Mathieu, who is holding plans in his left hand, stands on a high stone plinth . The walls of the base, which are made in the form of a tunnel, show the tools of the miners. In front of it are the figures of two young miners, a man with a miner's lamp and a kneeling woman with tools in her hands.

The inscription reads:

“Charles Mathieu. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, né à Anzin en 1798, maire de Lourches, fondateur des mines de Douchy en 1832, des mines de Courrières en 1849, creusé le premier puits du bassin du Pas-de-Calais et rend hommage au zèle des mineurs Daubresse, Bia, Pelabon, Bertiaux, Pj Bertiaux, A. Ledent, Stievenard, C. Blaise, E. Trognon, L. Blanchard, C. Héraut, Brunet, L. Degand, Cl. Botte, Ct. Botte, Delaporte, Delporte. "

(Translation: Charles Mathieu, Knight of the Legion of Honor , was born in Anzin in 1798 and was mayor of Lourches. He founded the Douchy Mining Company in 1832 and the Courrières Mining Company in 1849, which exploited the first coal mines in the Bassin des Pas-de-Calais The monument should also pay tribute to the miners [...].)

  • Details

  • Bronze statue of Charles Mathieu.

  • Two young miners

  • Miners' tools

  • Inscription in memory of Charles Mathieu and 17 miners

  • Tools of a geodesist

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , p. 320.

Web links

Commons : Monument to Charles Mathieu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument à Charles Mathieu in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 53.6 "  N , 3 ° 21 ′ 12.8"  E