Achille Valois

[2] Among his early works is the Fontaine de Léda (1806–08) in Fontainebleau style re-sited in the Jardin du Luxembourg.

[3] In 1816 he sculpted a portrait of Madame Royale the duchesse d'Angoulême, eldest daughter of the late Louis XVI.

[4] His bust of the sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet, with whom he had also studied, exhibited at the Salon of 1817, was bought in 1820 for the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers.

[5] He contributed a marble bas-relief of children representing Medicine intended for a fountain in Place de la Bastille (1817)[6] colossal statues of Louis XVI for Montpellier[7] and the cast-iron Pêche des coquillages (1838–40) to the central Fontaines de la Concorde, designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff for Place de la Concorde.

Between 1816 and 1827 he produced a statue of Louis XVI, which originally stood in Montpellier before being given as a gift to the city of Louisville, Kentucky in 1966.