Louis Henri Nicot

His time at the Rennes art school had been a great success and he had studied alongside such Breton sculptors as Pierre Lenoir, Éloi Emile Robert, Émile Jean Armel Beaufils, Emmanuel Guérin, Francis Renaud (sculptor), Albert Bourget and Jean Boucher (artist).

The Ếcole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris hold ex-pupils works in their archives and the collection includes a 1906 Nicot design which was his entry for the "Figure dessinée d'après l'antique" competition (Bridan prize) held each year by the school.

His health began to deteriorate and he suffered from a chronique onset of kidney stones and in May 1917 was hospitalised in Bar-le-Duc, then Charolles and Mâcon.

Those left behind felt it a duty to honour those lost in some tangible form and in November 1919, the association "La Bretagne artistique" sent a circular to all Breton Hôtel de ville promising their cooperation in creating sculptural decoration for any of the memorials erected.

For an exhibition organised in 1903 by the "Association artistique de Bretagne", Nicot exhibited a marble medallion depicting his uncle, the painter J.B. Cacheux, and a bust of the Rennes painter C. Nitsch, and in the years to follow, Nicot was to create medallion portraits of many artists and contemporaries.

These include the designer Benjamin Rabier, the architect Jules Longuet, the aviator Alfred Leblanc, the sculptors Florenza and Lavieuville, Sir John Woodyatt, Bertrand d’Aramon, Edmond Teulet, Achille Philip, Admiral Guépratte, Louis Beaufrère, Jules Henriot, the Marquis de l'marquis de l'Estour-Beillon, Eugène Le mouël, Léon Berthaut and Auguste Dupouy, and Lucien Daniel.