Barthélémy-François Chardigny

Barthélémy-François Chardigny was born on September 4, 1757, in Rouen, France.

[2] Chardigny moved to Aix-en-Provence to design sculptures for the Palace of Justice in 1784.

[2] Chardigny moved to Marseille, where he was commissioned a statue representing Liberty for the townhall in 1798.

[2] For example, he designed the fountain on the Place des Capucines, then known as the place des fainéants; it was later dismantled and replaced with another fountain designed by Dominique Fossati, although the basin remains Chardigny's.

[1] Chardigny moved to Paris in 1808, where he designed sculptures of Juno and Jupiter in the Louvre Palace.

Statue in honor of the victims of the 1720 plague epidemic, designed by Chardigny, Marseille.