Louis Robert Bate (10 October 1898, in Bordeaux – 1948 in Da Lat) was a French sculptor, as was his wife Juliette Briet-Bate.
He was a pupil of Jules Coutan and Paul Landowski[1] and a member of the Société Coloniale des Artistes Français and won in succession, second prize of the Prix de Rome in 1927,[2] bursary for residence at the Villa Velázquez Madrid in 1932, bursary for French Equatorial Africa,[3] Prix de Guadeloupe in 1935, and Prix de l'Indochine in 1938.
In Indochina he gained permanent employment at the school of architecture in Dalat till his death aged 50.
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