By the time he left the army in 1919 he was a captain in the marines, had been awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm and the rosette of the Légion d'honneur After the end of the 1914-1918 war there was a huge demand in France for war memorials and Grange received several commissions for work on such monuments.
He also executed bas-reliefs for the "île des Cygnes" in the Parc de la Tête d'Or in Lyon, a bust of Hector Berlioz and Victor Charles Descoust and the head of Mademoiselle Suzanne Ursault.
In 1926 he was awarded a gold medal for his composition "L’Automne", 1933 saw the unveiling of his Berlioz statue, followed in 1934 by "Hommage à Chopin".
Every year the Ếcole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts organized a competition for the Prix de Rome and set a subject for the students to work on.
[5][6] Grange's sculpture of the Irish monk and missionary stands in front of the Saint-Pierre Basilica in Luxeuil-les-Bains.
[9] The original 1903 Berlioz bronze had been requisitioned by the Germans and melted down for re-use of the metal and the replacement was erected in 1953 on the same spot in the Place Victor Hugo.
The park was created in 1856 by the Swiss landscape gardeners Denis and Eugène Bühler and the war memorial was designed by Tony Garnier.
The memorial comprises a haunting sculpture by Jean Larrivé depicting several figures carrying a shrouded coffin with, on either side, bas-reliefs by Louis Bertola and Grange.
From left to right we have a cavalryman with his sabre, a territorial ready for any work thrown at him even helping maintain the "Voie sacrée".
Ce monument a été erigé à la mémoire des Enfants de Verdun morts pour la France"Now the monument bears not only the names of the 518 casualties of the Great War but both military and civilian victims of the Second World War, including deportees and resistance fighters and those who lost their lives in Algeria and overseas.
[21] [22] The monument, designed by the architect Mathieu Forest, is located in Craonnelle and is also known as the Memorial to the French 36th Infantry Division.
The monument comprises a 14-metre-high (46 ft) obelisk made from stone from Souppes near Melun, the stone used for the Arc de Triomphe and the basilica of Sacre-Coeur at Montmartre and at the base of the obelisk is a Grange sculpture of a soldier in traditional basque costume and wearing a basque beret.