Élie Le Goff

[2] Amongst Élie senior's works are the composition "L'enfant rieur", a bust of Villiers l'Isles Adam and several war memorials ("monuments aux morts").

[5] The capitals of the columns lining the nave of the Église paroissiale Saint-Laurent in Callac were by Élie Le Goff.

[7] This statue, carved from wood, stands in Guingamp's Rue Notre-Dame by the Basilique Notre-Dame de Bon Secours and is a work by Élie Le Goff based on Princess Marie d'Orléans' model of Joan called "Prière avant le combat" ('The Prayer before the Battle').

The statue stands on a column with relief panels carved from wood by Le Goff at its base.

Apotheose Princesse Marie d'Orléans was an accomplished sculptor and in 1838 executed a statue of Jeanne d'Arc and it is this that Le Goff used as a model for his sculpture.

The inscription reads "Á La Mémoire Des Trois Frères LE GOFF morts pour la France 1914 — 1918 Signed: E. Le Goff"[10][11] The sculpture involved here, called "Poilu aux lauriers" and depicting a standing serviceman, is one of a series produced by Elié Le Goff and seen in many communes in Brittany, the only variation being that in some cases the serviceman wears a helmet and in others the beret worn by the marines.

In most cases the work has been cast in bronze although that in Plélan-le-Grand was executed using the local stone kersantite much favoured by sculptors.

[15][16][17] This war memorial was erected in 1928 and Élie Le Goff's "coq gaulois" is placed at the top of the obelisk, its right claw resting on a soldier's helmet.

The memorial takes the form of a menhir with a relief carving of the head of a helmeted soldier cut into the granite.

In front of the menhir, Le Goff places the sculpture of a mother with her child, the woman appearing to be telling the boy who the soldier was.

[19] The sculptural work on this memorial is attributed to Le Goff and features an officer with a sword in his hand protecting a dying young soldier.

[24] In Saint-Brieuc's Cimetière Saint-Michel in the Rue Jobert de Lamballe, Élie Le Goff executed a bronze portrait medallion for the Wernert-Le Restif family.

[25] Also in the Cimetière Saint-Michel is the tomb of the Pierre Giffard which dates to 1915 and has a bronze portrait medallion by Élie Le Goff.

Le Goff came fourth but in 1912 he won the "Grand Prix Roux" with the work "La Synthèse de l'hiver".