Monument to Robert Galley - Troyes - Monument

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The monument to Robert Galley is a work by sculptor Didier Rousseau that was inaugurated in November 2018.

It honours the memory of Robert Galley, member of the Free French Resistance, Companion of the Liberation, minister from 1968 to 1981 and mayor of Troyes from 1972 to 1995.

The gilded bronze bust rests on a square column of Burgundian stone.
It weighs almost 150 kg and is 125 cm high. The entire statue is 2.75 m high.

Note the butterfly on his left shoulder : a little nod to this nature lover who had a passion for entomology (the study of insects) and butterflies in particular. He collected almost 20,000 species of butterflies and donated them to the Natural History Museum in Troyes.

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Source: Willem Vandenameele

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