Louis-Victor Bougron

Via his mother, Louis-Victor was great-grandson of Marie-Françoise Marchand, a famour actor in the Comédie-Française, known as Mlle Dumesnil.

Initially studying at the École des Arts et Métiers in Châlons, in 1817 he was seconded to Paris to administer hospices.

In 1831 he exhibited a plaster group entitled King Pepin Descending into the Arena to Fight a Lion, a work complimented by Louis-Philippe I, who took him on to produce a marble copy to decorate a public square.

He insisted on claiming the post, with no success, and in 1832 published a booklet violently attacking the count of Forbin entitled Réclamation tardive.

Petit mémoire contre M. le comte de Forbin, directeur-général des Musées royaux, par L.-V. Bougron, statuaire, In 1837 he was living in Lille, where he taught drawing at the pensionnat du Sacré-Cœur.